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'Six kingly bridegrooms to death we have done, Six gallant kingdoms King Adolf hath won; Six lovely brides all his pleasure to do, Or the bed of the seventh shall be husbandless too. Well chanced it that Adolf the night when he wed Had confessed and had sain'd him ere boune to his bed; He sprung from the couch, and his broadsword he drew, And there the seven daughters of Urien he slew.
So here was Eugénie, husbandless and childless at eight-and-twenty for the only child of the marriage had died within a year of its birth; the heroine of an odious story which, if it had never reached the law courts, was none the less perfectly well known in society; and, in the eyes of those who loved her, one of the bravest, saddest, noblest of women.
For, according to their custom, they just as spontaneously grant life to a defective child when a member offers to assume sole responsibility for its keeping as they are implacably determined upon its death if its mother is husbandless. But seldom does any man make this sacrifice; in this land of rigorous hardship and starvation it means much. Ootah fought his way among them.
"Then you would take her back?" she said frenziedly. "To my home which is hers yes. To my heart no. She never was there." "And I," said Mrs. Horncastle, with a quivering lip, "where do I go when you have settled this? Back to my past again? Back to my husbandless, childless life?" She was turning away, but Barker caught her in his arms again.
It was an awkward situation, this being shut up alone in a husbandless woman's house with an unknown intruder. It seemed to be an occasion for tact rather than the possible fuss of police interference. At this moment the stranger made a discovery. He had been examining the five silver photograph-frames, each in turn, with close attention.
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