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Updated: June 16, 2025
Sibyll lifted her dark eyes, yet humid, upon the unrevealing face of the speaker, and gazed on him with wistful and inquiring sadness; then, shrinking from his side, she crossed her arms meekly on her bosom, and thus said, "Thou couldst be consoled, then, by thy pride of woman, for the loss of an unworthy lover?" "My lord, are these questions fair?" Hastings was silent.
It would be difficult to say which of the two suffered the most. Probably McKeith, because he was the strongest. Equally, he showed it the least when the breaking moment had passed. Yet both husband and wife seemed to have covered their faces, hearts and souls with unrevealing masks. No, it was worse than that.
Lucretia then, still without apparent emotion, raised to the good man's face deep, penetrating, but unrevealing eyes, and said slowly, "Is my sister like my mother, who, they say, was handsome?" Much startled by this question, Fielden answered: "I never saw your mother, my dear; but your sister gives promise of more than common comeliness." Lucretia's brows grew slightly compressed.
Your King, also, even since your absence, hath had severe visitings of sickness, and ere another year his new Abbey may hold his tomb." William here paused; again dropped the pebbles into the stream, and glanced furtively on the unrevealing face of the Earl.
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