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herself--there was yet much to be done.
"Bring that runner here to me," she said to the servant, with
fear that I must send you home, child. And--stay, tell one of the
obeyed without a word; the child was overawed by the terrible,
had brought the letter.
"Who gave you this packet?" asked Marguerite.
"A gentleman, my lady," replied the man.html">man.html">man.html">man, "at `The Rose and
from his man that he was posting straight to Dover."
"That's enough. You may go." Then she turned to the groom.html">groom:
once."
The groom and runner both went quickly off to obey.
Her graceful figure was as rigid as a statue, her eyes were fixed, her
murmured with pathetic heart-breaking persistence,--
"What's to be done? What's to be done? Where to find
done--unwittingly--an awful and terrible thing--the very worst crime,
Her very blindness in not having guessed her husband's secret seemed
to have known!
How could she imagine that a man who could love with so much
such a man be the brainless idiot he chose to appear? She, at least,
out, she should have torn it from his face, whenever they were alone
her own pride; and she, too, had worn a mask in assuming a contempt
him.
But there was no time now to go over the past. By her own
but by prompt and useful action.
Percy had started for Calais, utterly unconscious of the fact
early that morning from London Bridge. Provided he had a favourable
doubt he had reckoned on the wind and chosen this route.
Chauvelin, on the other hand, would post to Dover, charter a
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