There was something frightful in her calmness.

Her steady eyes seemed to devour him.
"You have ruined my life," she said; "and I was so young, so ignorant, and loved you so.

You betrayed me, and left me mocking me and trampling me into the dust, a soiled cast-off.

You might better have killed me then.

Then I should not have hated you." "Laura," said the Colonel, nerving himself, but still pale, and speaking appealingly, "don't say that.