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Updated: May 17, 2025
They left the room to dress, and I was alone alone with my anxious, now half despairing thoughts, crowding and rushing upon my beating brain. She loves him, and I have only come to witness her becoming the wife of another. I see it all, too plainly; my Uncle's arrival Lord Callonby's familiar manner Jane's own confession. All all convince me, that my fate is decided.
What my uncle added, I waited not to listen to; but with one bound sprung from the room dashed up stairs to Lady Callonby's drawing-room looked rapidly around to see if SHE were there, and then without paying the slightest attention to the questions of Lady Callonby and her younger daughter, was turning to leave the room, when my eye caught the flutter of a Cachmere shawl in the garden beneath.
Now or never; death itself were preferable to this continued suspense. If the blow is to fall, it can scarcely sink me lower than I now feel: so reasoning, I laid my hand upon Lord Callonby's arm, and with a face pale as death, and a voice all but inarticulate, said, "My Lord, you will pardon, I am sure " "My dear Lorrequer," said his lordship interrupting me, "for heaven's sake sit down.
It now struck me forcibly that there was something extremely odd in his lordship's mention of this paragraph, particularly when coupled with his and Lady Callonby's manner to me for the last two months.
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