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Her ferocity of manner all was gone, and the poor, white-haired creature sat quietly where Alice had put her, while the story proceeded: "You know, Densie, but these do not, how I won your love with promises of marriage, and then deserted you just when you needed me most. I had found new prey by that time was on the eve of marriage with one who was too good for me. I left you and married Mrs.
The mark, too, must have strengthened the deception, as I knew it would, and eighteen months sometimes changes a child materially; so Eliza took it for granted that the girl she received as Adaline, and whose real name was Densie, was her own; but Adah Hastings is her daughter and Hugh's half-sister, while this young woman is the child of myself and Densie Densmore!"
Alice, do you hear me? baby was gone;" and the poor, mumbling creature, rocking to and fro, buried her bony fingers in Alice's fair hair. "Poor Densie! poor auntie!" was all Alice said, as she regarded with horror the man, who went on: "Yes, baby was gone gone to my mother's, in a part of the city where there was no probability of its being found and I was gone, too.
The convict shook his head. "No, Densie, not Adah, I kept her, my lawful child, and sent the other back. It was a bold move, and I wonder it was not questioned, but Adaline's eyes were not so black then as they are now, and though six months older than the other, she was small for her age, and cannot now be so tall as Adah.
"Thank you," and Alice's ringing laugh cut the winter air as she followed Densie Densmore, the doctor carefully wrapping her cloak about her, and asking if her fur was pulled up sufficiently around her neck. "It's very cold," he said, glancing up at the glittering stars, scarcely brighter than the blue eyes flashing on him.
Worthington replied, going on to say how foolish it was for 'Lina to assume such airs, that Densie was as good as anybody, or at all events was a quiet, well-behaved woman, worthy of respect, and that Hugh would as soon stay away himself as banish her from the table because she had once been a servant. "Yes, but consider Dr. Richards when he comes. What must he think of us?
'Lina never knew one-half how good and generous he was until just as she was losing him. "Densie," the convict said, trying in vain to shake off the hand which held him so firmly: "Densie, be calm, and wait, as you see the others doing. They all, save one, are interested in me." "But my daughter, my stolen daughter. I'll have her, or your life!" was Densie's fierce reply.
Timidly, Densie approached the bed from which she had once been so angrily dismissed. But there was nothing to fear now from the white, wasted girl, whose large eyes fastened themselves a moment on the wrinkled face; then with a shudder, closed tightly, while the lip quivered with a grieved, suffering expression.
She did not say to poor old Densie that she acknowledged her as a mother, or that she felt for her the slightest thrill of love. She was through with deception; and when, at last, she spoke to the anxiously waiting woman, it was only to say: "I wanted to tell you that I have forgiven you; but I cannot call you mother. You must not expect it.
The doctor, too, felt better for such music, and he never remembered having been more attentive to a sermon in his life than to the one, which followed the evening service. When it was ended, and the people dismissed, she came tripping down the stairs, flooding the dingy vestibule with a world of sunshine. "Here, Aunt Densie, here I am.
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