[A Perilous Secret by Charles Reade]@TWC D-Link bookA Perilous Secret CHAPTER XVIII 14/14
I try to thank her, and I tried, and always will, to save him from a prison and his family from disgrace." "And sacrifice yourself ?" cried Hope, in agony. "I love him," said Mary, "and you must spare him." "I will have justice for my child." Grace was in such terror lest her father should punish Walter that she begged him to consider whether in sacrificing herself she really had not been unintentionally wise.
What could she gain by publishing that she had married another woman's husband "I have lost my husband," said she "but I have found my father.
Oh take me away and let me rest my broken heart upon yours far from all who know me.
Every wound seems to be cured in this world, and if time won't cure this my wound, even with my father's help, the grave _will_." "Oh, misery!" cried Hope; "do I hear such words as these from my child just entering upon life and all its joys ?" "Hush, papa," said Grace; "there is that man." That man was Mr.Bartley.He looked very much distressed, and proceeded at once to express his penitence..
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