She had expected from him reproach,
but not love. There was reproach indeed, but it came with an
expression of passion of which she had not known him to be capable.
He stood before her telling her that she had broken his heart, and,
as he told her so, his words were half choked by sobs. He reminded
her of her promises, declaring that his own to her had ever remained
in full force. And he told her that she, she to whom he had looked
for all his joy, had become a curse to him and a blight upon his
life. There were thoughts and feelings too beyond all these that
crowded themselves upon her heart and upon her mind at the moment.
It had been possible for her to accept the hand of Adrian Urmand
because she had become assured that George Voss no longer regarded
her as his promised bride. She would have stood firm against her
uncle and her aunt, she would have stood against all the world, had
it not seemed to her that the evidence of her cousin's indifference
was complete. Had not that evidence been complete at all points, it
would have been impossible to her to think of becoming the wife of
another man.
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