[Clementina by A.E.W. Mason]@TWC D-Link bookClementina CHAPTER X 14/16
Her only difficulty was to keep silence, and when the silence became no longer endurable she would run on some excuse or another to Wogan and divert him with the properest sentiments. "To me," she would cry, "there's nothing sinful in changing clothes with the beautiful mistress of O'Toole.
Christian charity says we are to make others happy.
I am a Christian, and as to the uncle he can go to the devil! He can do nothing to me but talk, and I don't understand his stupid language." Jenny was the one person really happy during this month.
It was Wogan's effort to keep her so, for she was the very pivot of his plan. There remains yet one other who had most reason of all to repine at the delay, the Princess Clementina.
Her mother wearied her with perpetual complaints, the Prince of Baden, who was allowed admittance to the villa, persecuted her with his attentions; she knew nothing of what was planned for her escape, and the rigorous confinement was not relaxed.
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