The Curse of Gold; A Romance (Paperback)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: vessel of clay: but there, it is safely treasured, up in that golden storehouse, never to be lost, but at the appointed time to work its allotted mission, perhaps, in requital for suffering here, enhancing the wondrous joys of hereafter. CHAPTER VII. 14 Jane De Montfoht. Thou shalt not tell me. Nay, I'll stop mine ears, Nor from the yearnings of aftection wring, What shrinks from utterance. Let it pass, my brother, I'll stay by thee; I'll cheer thee, comfort thee." Joasna Bailme. Frank Howabd, on his return homo that night, hearing some vague account of the affair from the servants, questioned his sister in no very gentle terms as to the real circumstances of the case. Blanche acquainted him with the violent agitation into which Allan had been thrown by the singing under the window, and his rushing out, calling on the name of Edith. " Yes," said Frank; " he may call, and call in vain. The girl believes him false, and will never seek him more?I have taken care of that. But all this has been done for your sake, Blanche; so stifle reproaches?I wont hear them. I confess I had some twinges of conscience when I first began to make the girl miserable, and was half inclined to have fallen in love with her myself. I had often watched her meeting with Allan Fairland by the lake, and, under pretence of being an utter stranger, I one evening gleaned from the landlady 01 the ' Eoebuck' a few interesting particulars, concerning Mr. Fairland's intention of marrying Edith Ellerton. While Allan lay suffering from his wound, I made it my business to go over occasionally to Weston, and had more than one interview with Edith, while she, ignorant of what had befallen him, went, in wearying suspense, evening after evening, to the old appointed place of meeting. 'Twas there I knew I ...