[Jezebel’s Daughter by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookJezebel’s Daughter CHAPTER XXI 11/20
I was thinking of my aunt's asthma.
At her age, she will never take the long journey from Munich to Frankfort.
Permit me to offer a suggestion.
Let us be married first, and then pay her a visit in the honeymoon." Mr.Keller passed his son's suggestion over without notice, and addressed himself once more to Madame Fontaine. "I propose writing to my sister in a day or two," he resumed, "to inform her of the contemplated marriage.
She already knows your name through Mr. Engelman, who kindly wrote to allay her anxiety about my illness." "And to tell her," Mr.Engelman interposed, "to whose devotion he owes his recovery." The widow received this tribute with eyes fixed modestly on her plate. Her black dress, rising and falling over her bosom, betrayed an agitation, which her enemies at Wurzburg might have attributed to the discovery of the rich sister at Munich.
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