You two shall be never separated." "But not as your wife ?" "I will live where she and you may please.

She shall want nothing that my wife would possess." "But not as your wife ?" "Not as Countess of Scroope." "You would have her as your mistress, then ?" As she asked this question the tone of her voice was altogether altered, and the threatening lion-look had returned to her eyes.

They were now near the seat, confronted to each other; and the fury of her bosom, which for a while had been dominated by the tenderness of the love for her daughter, was again raging within her.

Was it possible that he should be able to treat them thus,--that he should break his word and go from them scathless, happy, joyous, with all the delights of the world before him, leaving them crushed into dust beneath his feet.

She had been called upon from her youth upwards to bear injustice,--but of all injustice surely this would be the worst.