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Updated: June 4, 2025
He started forward, as all the company did for her ladyship of Dunstanwolde had risen to her full height with a strange movement and, standing a moment swaying, had fallen at Sir John Oxon's feet, white in a death-like swoon. Sir John Rides out of Town
Where she could hear of man, woman, or child on whom John Oxon's sins had fallen, or who had suffered wrong by him, there she went to help, to give light, to give comfort and encouragement.
Even as she moaned the words she heard hoof beats near her, and a horseman leaped the hedge and was at her side. She set her teeth, and turning, stared into John Oxon's face. "Did you think I would not follow you?" he asked. "No," she answered. "I have followed you at a distance hitherto," he said; "now I shall follow close." She did not speak, but galloped on.
In John Oxon's blue eyes there had been a set fierce look, and in Clorinda's a blaze which had been like a declaration of war; and these same looks she had seen since that day, again and again. Gradually it had become her sister's habit to take Anne with her into the world as she had not done before her widowhood, and Anne knew whence this custom came.
Oxon's fair face was white with passion; he panted also, but strained every nerve to keep at her side, and kept there. "Keep back! I warn thee!" she cried once, almost gasping. "Keep back!" he answered, blind with rage. "I will follow thee to hell!"
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