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A slight exclamation of terror escaped Mrs. Allerton, followed by a loud hysterical scream from the Swindon young woman, as she staggered forward towards the stranger, exclaiming, "Oh, merciful God! my husband!" and then fell, overcome with emotion, in his outstretched arms. "Yes," said the Rev. Mr. Wishart promptly, "that is certainly the gentleman I united to Maria Emsbury.
"Pardon me, madam," I cried, catching eagerly at the interruption, as a drowning man is said to do at a straw "this young person was at least Miss Emsbury. Desire the officer to walk up." The butler vanished instantly, and we all huddled back disorderly into the drawing-room, some one closing the door after us. I felt the grasp of Mrs.
I have further to say that this young woman, Maria Emsbury, is a very respectable person, and that her marriage-portion, of a little more than eight hundred pounds, was given to her husband, whom she has only seen thrice since her marriage, to support himself till the death of his reputed father, constantly asserted by him to be imminent."
A look at his face and head dissipated a half-suspicion that had arisen in both Flint's mind and my own. I asked him a few questions relative to the sojourn of his master at Bath, and then said, "I wish you to go with me and Bee this Maria Emsbury."
I stared at the man, discerned a strange expression in his face, and it glanced across me at the same moment that I had heard no knock at the door. "See Miss Emsbury!" exclaimed the Widow Thorneycroft, recovering her speech "there is no such person here!"
The mutual confusion into which we were thrown caused a momentary hesitation only, and we were passing on when the butler suddenly appeared. "A gentleman," he said, "an officer, is at the door, who wishes to see a Miss Maria Emsbury, formerly of Swindon."
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