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Bad Hugh

CHAPTER XXXIX
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She's in your own home as Rose Markham.

She went from here, Adah Hastings, whose husband's name was George.

You do understand me ?" and Alice grew very earnest as the doctor failed to rouse up, as she thought he ought to do.
Appealing next to Anna, she continued: "Pray, make him comprehend that his wife is at Terrace Hill." Very gently Anna answered: "She was there, but she has gone.

He knows it; I came to tell him, but she fled immediately after recognizing my brother, and left a letter revealing the whole." It had come to 'Lina by this time that Dr.Richards could never be her husband, and with a bitter cry, she covered her face with her hands, and went shivering to the corner where Mrs.Worthington sat, as if a mother's sympathy were needed now, and coveted as it had never been before.
"Oh, mother," she sobbed, laying her head in Mrs.Worthington's lap, "I wish I had never been born." Sadly her wail of disappointment rang through the room, and then the convict went on with his interrupted narrative.
"When the marriage was over, Mr.Hastings took his wife to another part of the city, hiding her from his fashionable associates, staying with her most of the time, and appearing to love her so much that I thought it would not be long before I should venture to tell him the truth.

I went South on a little business which a companion and myself had planned together--the very laudable business of stealing negroes from one State and selling them in another.


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