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Then she was known as Anna Bonard " "Anna Bonard!" exclaims Madame Montford. "Then truly it is she who now lives in Charleston! There is no longer a doubt. I may seek and claim her, and return her to at least a life of comfort." "There you will find her. Ah, many times have I looked upon her, and thought if I could only save her, how happy I could die.
And that was, that the woman Anna Bonard, repined of her act in leaving George Mullholland, to whom she was anxious to return-that she was now held against her will; that she detested Judge Sleepyhorn, although he had provided lavishly for her comfort. She learned, too, that high up on Anna's right arm, there was imprinted in blue and red ink, two hearts and a broken anchor.
Anna Bonard interrupts by saying, peremptorily, she has nothing to tell one so guilty. To be thus rebuked by an abandoned woman, notwithstanding she might be her own child, wounded her feelings deeply. It was like poison drying up her very blood. Gloomy and motionless she stood, as if hesitating how best to make her escape. "Woman! I will not betray your coming here.
He is come to be the associate of gentlemen; men high in office shower upon him their favors. It is all to propitiate the friendship of Bonard I know it." Mr. Snivel concludes hurriedly, and departs into the street, as our scene changes. It is night.
Snivel affects a tone of moderation, whispers in the old man's ear, and says: "Mind you tell the fortune of this girl, Bonard, as I have directed. Study what I have told you. If she be not the child of Madame Montford, then no faith can be put in likenesses. I have got in my possession what goes far to strengthen the suspicions now rife concerning the fashionable New Yorker."
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