[Madelon by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman]@TWC D-Link bookMadelon CHAPTER XXIV 16/19
I will not marry him, because he tried to kill his cousin Lot.
I will not, I will not!" The black woman pushed between them with a savage murmur of love and wrath, and caught her mistress in her arms, and crooned over her, like a wild thing over her young. "There is no use in prolonging this, sir," Burr said to Parson Fair. The elder man looked at him with a strange mixture of helpless dignity and sympathy and wrath.
"You know that I have no share in this," he said, and he glanced almost piteously from Burr to his mother.
"I could never have believed that my daughter--" "We will say no more about it, sir," responded Burr.
"I hold neither you nor your daughter in any blame." Then he offered his arm to his mother, and the three went out and down-stairs, and the black woman clapped to the chamber door with a great jar upon her mistress, whose calm of obstinacy had broken into wailing hysterics which betokened no less stanchness.
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