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For some time after this event, Lord Glenfallen appeared, if possible, to suffer more than he had done before, and altogether his language, which often amounted to half confessions of the guilt imputed to him, and all the circumstances connected with the late occurrences, formed a mass of evidence so convincing that I wrote to my father, detailing the grounds of my fears, and imploring him to come to Cahergillagh without delay, in order to remove me from my husband's control, previously to taking legal steps for a final separation.
I reflected, however, that Lord Glenfallen was a wealthy man, and one highly thought of; and although I could never expect to love him in the romantic sense of the term, yet I had no doubt but that, all things considered, I might be more happy with him than I could hope to be at home.
'Madam, said I, 'there must be some mistake here this is my bed-chamber. 'Marry come up, said the lady, sharply; 'YOUR chamber! Where is Lord Glenfallen? 'He is below, madam, replied I; 'and I am convinced he will be not a little surprised to find you here. 'I do not think he will, said she; 'with your good leave, talk of what you know something about. Tell him I want him.
Tell me here, in the presence of God, did Lord Glenfallen marry you ACTUALLY MARRY you? Speak the truth, woman. 'As surely as I live and speak, I replied, 'did Lord Glenfallen marry me, in presence of more than a hundred witnesses. 'Well, continued she, 'he should have told you THEN, before you married him, that he had a wife living, which wife I am.
Let it suffice to say, that I was married to Lord Glenfallen with all the attendant pomp and circumstance of wealth, rank, and grandeur. According to the usage of the times, now humanely reformed, the ceremony was made, until long past midnight, the season of wild, uproarious, and promiscuous feasting and revelry.
I started up in the bed, with a view to ring the bell, and alarm the domestics, but she instantly anticipated me by saying, "Do not be frightened, silly girl; if I had wished to harm you I could have done it while you were sleeping, I need not have wakened you; listen to me, now, attentively and fearlessly; for what I have to say, interests you to the full as much as it does me; tell me, here, in the presence of God, did Lord Glenfallen marry you, actually marry you? speak the truth, woman."
"I say, madam," I repeated, approaching her, that I might be more distinctly heard, "that I am Lady Glenfallen."
"My dear Fanny," continued my mother, "in sober seriousness you have been most fortunate in engaging the affections of a nobleman such as Lord Glenfallen, young and wealthy, with first-rate, yes, acknowledged first-rate abilities and of a family whose influence is not exceeded by that of any in Ireland of course you see the offer in the same light that I do indeed I think you must."
Lord Glenfallen mistook the cause of my emotion, and taking me kindly and tenderly by the hand, he said: 'Do not suppose, my love, that it is my intention to SETTLE here. Whenever you desire to leave this, you have only to let me know your wish, and it shall be complied with; so I must entreat of you not to suffer any circumstances which I can control to give you one moment's uneasiness.
I had reason to think that Lord Glenfallen wreaked his vengeance upon the author of the strange story which I had heard, with a violence which was not satisfied with mere words, for old Martha, with whom I was a great favourite, while attending me in my room, told me that she feared her master had ill-used the poor blind Dutch woman, for that she had heard her scream as if the very life were leaving her, but added a request that I should not speak of what she had told me to any one, particularly to the master.
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