[The Law and the Lady by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Law and the Lady CHAPTER V 8/13
A villain has deceived you.
You are no more married than I am!" I snatched my hand out of hers, and rose angrily from my chair. "Are you mad ?" I asked. The landlady raised her eyes to the ceiling with the air of a person who had deserved martyrdom, and who submitted to it cheerfully. "Yes," she said.
"I begin to think I _am_ mad--mad to have devoted myself to an ungrateful woman, to a person who doesn't appreciate a sisterly and Christian sacrifice of self.
Well, I won't do it again. Heaven forgive me--I won't do it again!" "Do what again ?" I asked. "Follow your mother-in-law," cried the landlady, suddenly dropping the character of a martyr, and assuming the character of a vixen in its place.
"I blush when I think of it.
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