21/34 "I have lived such a life as I did not think any man or woman could be made to live on this side the grave. I will be honest with you, Harry. Nothing but the conviction that it could not be for long has saved me from destroying myself. I knew that he must die!" "Oh, Lady Ongar!" "Yes, indeed; that is the name he gave me; and because I consented to take it from him, he treated me--O heavens! how am I to find words to tell you what he did, and the way in which he treated me. A woman could not tell it to a man. |