[Antonina by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookAntonina CHAPTER 5 12/15
Then, as she began to estimate the reality of her deprivation, her eyes lost all their heaven-born brightness, and filled to overflowing with the tears of earth. 'To your chamber!' thundered Numerian, as she knelt, sobbing convulsively, over those hapless fragments.
'To your chamber! Tomorrow shall bring this mystery of iniquity to light!' She rose humbly to obey him, for indignation had no part in the emotions that shook her gentle and affectionate nature.
As she moved towards the room that no lute was henceforth to occupy, as she thought on the morrow that no lute was henceforth to enliven, her grief almost overpowered her.
She turned back and looked imploringly at her father, as if entreating permission to pick up even the smallest of the fragments at his feet. 'To your chamber!' he reiterated sternly.
'Am I to be disobeyed to my face ?' Without any repetition of her silent remonstrance, she instantly retired.
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