This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ... one will see us together, or hear us spoak as friends; that might provoke comment. I am utterly unknown; besides, I will not leave my stateroom. It is for this poor child's sake that I go. Who will take care of her if I do not?" The little girl sat upon the floor playing with some scraps of gorgeous-colored ribbons ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ... one will see us together, or hear us spoak as friends; that might provoke comment. I am utterly unknown; besides, I will not leave my stateroom. It is for this poor child's sake that I go. Who will take care of her if I do not?" The little girl sat upon the floor playing with some scraps of gorgeous-colored ribbons and bits of lace, which she bit and mangled with her teeth. She had a craving fancy for bright colors, but always fell to destroying them when her caprice was satisfied. "She is more like me than her," said Rachael, watching the child. Hepworth shuddered. Had this woman no soul that she could speak so lightly of the woman who was dead? "You think not because of her blue eyes. I do not say that there is any resemblance in the face, but iu everything else. Why, yesterday she struck me, because I would not kiss her." The child understood this, tumbled her scraps of silk to the floor, and made a dash at Hepworth, where she stood, beating her dress with both hands, and biting it with her teeth. This she had learned within the short time that she had been under the care of Rachael Closs. With old Mrs. Yates she was playful and gentle as a bird. Hepworth put her from him very softly, for he was thinking of the beautiful mother as she la' so cold and still in the twilight of that chamber." "I wish you had never seen the child, or her father, Rachael." The girl turned upon him angrily; her eyes flashed, her teeth were, for one instant, clenched fiercely. "You put me out of patience, Hepworth Closs--" "Rachael?" "Well, what? I am tired of this. If you are unstable as water, I am firm as rock." "Then you have resolved to marry this man? Bo warned in time, Rachael; I will not permit ...
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