[The Story of Bawn by Katharine Tynan]@TWC D-Link bookThe Story of Bawn CHAPTER XXXVIII 9/17
God forgive me if it was presumptuous, but I said-- "I am so sure of His mercy that I am sure He will not." "If He will spare me Robin, I will be a good woman for the future. Arthur has been very tender to me over the child.
It was he who banished me from Robin's room, although he is there himself.
He says that I am so precious to him that the world would fall in ruins without me.
Why didn't he say it to me before, and not live always in a world which I could not enter? Bawn, I have never really loved any one but my husband." "I am sure of it," I said, "as he never loved any one but you." "Oh, the folly of it all!" she moaned, sitting huddled up in her little phaeton, with her eyes looking miserably before her. Then she turned her gaze on me, and I felt as though her unhappy eyes scorched and burned me. "Yet I very nearly ran away with Richard Dawson," she said.
"In fact, I did run away with him that night after you had broken with him.
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