[Mischievous Maid Faynie by Laura Jean Libbey]@TWC D-Link bookMischievous Maid Faynie CHAPTER VII 6/8
You are a Fairfax.
You have taken your choice, and as a Fairfax you must abide by your decision!' You will remember I told you I had something to tell you the moment you came up to me at the arched gate, but you would not listen.
Now the consequence is upon your own head." "I have married a beggar, when I thought I was marrying an--heiress!" he cried in a rage so horrible that Faynie, brave as she was, recoiled from him in terror and, dismay. "You have married a penniless young girl," she corrected, half inaudibly. He raised his clinched hand with a terrible volley of oaths, before which she quailed, despite her bravery. "When the old man cast you off you thought you would tie yourself on to me," he cried.
"You women are cunning--oh, yes, you are, don't tell me you're not; and you are the shrewdest one I've come across yet.
You lie when you say you meant to tell me what had happened beforehand, and you know it.
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