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Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days

CHAPTER XI
19/32

She was supported thither by her two curates, who, however, could not prevent her from weeping at the stern voice of the usher.

She related her marriage.
"Is that your husband ?" demanded Vodrey, K.C.

(who had now assumed the principal _role_, Pennington, K.C., being engaged in another play in another theatre), pointing with one of his well-conceived dramatic gestures to Priam Farll.
"It is," sobbed Mrs.Henry Leek.
The unhappy creature believed what she said, and the curates, though silent, made a deep impression on the jury.

In cross-examination, when Crepitude, K.C., forced her to admit that on first meeting Priam in his house in Werter Road she had not been quite sure of his identity, she replied-- "It's all come over me since.

Shouldn't a woman recognize the father of her own children ?" "She should," interpolated the judge.


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