[Bad Hugh by Mary Jane Holmes]@TWC D-Link bookBad Hugh CHAPTER XXXV 8/22
It sounds so always when it's in the east.
We surely are alone.
What of Lily? Do you wish you were going after her instead of 'Lina ?" Oh, why did the doctor hesitate a moment? Why did he suffer his dread of losing Anna's respect to triumph over every other feeling? He had meant to tell her all, how he did love the gentle girl, the little more than child, who confided herself to him--how he loved even her memory now far more than he loved 'Lina, but something kept the full confession back, and he answered: "I don't know.
We must have money, and 'Lina is rich, while Lily was very poor, and the only friend or relation she knew was one with whom I would not dare have you come in contact, so wicked and reckless he was." This was what the doctor said, and into the brown eyes, now bloodshot and dim with anguish, there came the hard, fierce look, before which Alice Johnson once had shuddered, when Adah Hastings said: "I should hate him! Yes, I should hate him!" And in that dark hour of agony Adah felt that she did hate him.
She knew now that what she before would not believe was true.
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