Anna Katharine Green

Name: A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XII. A Woman's Love
Author: Anna Katharine Green

A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XII. A Woman's Love (1880)

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“A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XII. A Woman's Love”, published in 1880, is a work by Anna Katharine Green. It explores elements such as Evelyn Blake, sustainment and bitterness.

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XII. A Woman's Love (1880)

“ She stopped me with a look. 'The son must never forsake the father,' said she. 'If either of us must leave the house this day, let it be I.' Then in a softer tone, 'When you asked me to be your wife, I who had worshipped you from the moment you entered my father's house on the memorable night I left it, was so overcome at your condescension that I forgot you did not preface it by the usual passionate, 'I love you,' which more than the marriage ring binds two hearts together. In the glamour and glow of my joy, I did not see that the smile that was in my heart, was missing from your face. ”

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XII. A Woman's Love (1880)

“ I will have no rival in my own empire; your wife must be a plainer and a less aspiring woman than Evelyn Blake. Yet do not discredit your name,--which is mine,' she would always add.
"Meanwhile the days flew by. If my own conscience had allowed me to forget the fact, my father's eagerly inquiring, but sternly unrelenting gaze as I came each evening to his bedside, would have kept it sufficiently in my mind. I began to feel like one in the power of some huge crushing machine whose slowly descending weight he in vain endeavors to escape. ”

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XII. A Woman's Love (1880)

“ I saw my father's stiff and pallid lips move silently as though he would answer for me if he could, and summoning up what courage I possessed, I told her that I deeply regretted she had overheard my inconsiderate words. That I had never meant to wound her, whatever bitterness lay in my heart towards one who had thwarted me in my dearest and most cherished hopes. That I humbly begged her pardon and would so far acknowledge her claim upon me as to promise that I would not leave my home at this time, if it distressed her; my desire being not to injure her, only to protect myself. ”

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XII. A Woman's Love (1880)

“ I will never disgrace the position high as it is above my poor deserts. When the day comes--if the day comes--that you need or feel you need the sustainment of my presence or the devotion of my heart, no power on earth save that of death itself, shall keep me from your side. Till that day arrives I remain what you have made me, a bride who lays no claim to the name you this morning bestowed upon her.' And with a gesture that was like a benediction, she turned, and noiselessly, breathlessly as a dream that vanishes, left the room.
"Sirs, I believe I uttered a cry and stumbled towards her. ”

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XII. A Woman's Love (1880)

“ Straight as a dart, but with that look on her face, she came towards us. 'Did I hear aright?' were the words that came from her lips. 'Have you married me, a woman beneath your station as I now perceive, because you were commanded to do so? Have you not loved me? given me that which alone makes marriage a sacrament or even a possibility? ”

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XII. A Woman's Love (1880)

“ No refuge ever appeared more welcome to a pair of sinking wanderers I am sure. Wet to the skin, bedrabbled with mud, exhausted with breasting the gale, we stood for a moment under the porch to regain our breath, then with her characteristic energy she lifted the knocker and struck a smart blow on the door. ”

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XII. A Woman's Love (1880)

“ She seemed to feel my embarassment and a half smile fluttered to her lips. That smile decided me. It was sweet but above all else it was appealing.
"How I won that woman to marry me in ten days time I care not to state. Not by holding up my wealth and position before her. Something restrained me from that. I was resolved, and perhaps it was the only point of light in my conduct at that time, not to buy this young girl. I never spoke of my expectations, I never alluded to my present advantages yet I won her. ”

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XII. A Woman's Love (1880)

“ Now give me the blessing you promised and let me go; for I cannot live with a woman I do not love.'
"Instantly, and before his lips could move, the door opened and the woman I thus repudiated in the first dawning hour of her young bliss, stood before us. My God! what a face! ”

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XII. A Woman's Love (1880)

“ If at the end of that time you cannot bring your bride to my bedside, I must look around for an heir who will not thwart my dying wishes.'"
"A month! I surveyed the fashionable belles that nightly thronged the parlors of my friends and felt my heart sink within me. Take one of them for my wife, loving another woman? Impossible. Women like these demanded something in return for the honor they conferred upon a man by marrying him. Wealth? ”

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Anna Katharine Green, A Strange Disappearance — Chapter XII. A Woman's Love (1880)

“ The advantage which it would give her in her struggle with the world she seemed duly to appreciate, but that so great a favor could be shown her without causing me much trouble and an unwarrantable expense, she could not at once be brought to comprehend, and till she could, she held out with that gentle but inflexible will of hers. The battle, however, was won at last and I left her in that little cottage, with the understanding that as soon as the matter could be arranged, she was to enter a certain boarding-school in Troy with the mistress of which I was acquainted. ”

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