Delia clutched her hands so tightly that her arms quivered, and grew
rigid; while her pale face darkened with an expression so like
revenge, that Constance felt a shudder of fear in her heart.
"If my prayers for her are answered," said the excited woman,
speaking through her closing teeth, "she will find that day the
darkest in the calendar of her life, when she stepped between me and
my husband. I have only curses for her in my heart. Only curses!"
Constance, startled, and almost frightened by this wild burst of
feeling, endeavored to soothe her; but the storm was too fierce to
own the power of her gentle persuasions, and raged on for its brief
season.
"I thought her mind had given way," said my wife, on relating what
she had seen and heard. "It was fearful to look upon a human
creature so terribly moved."
"The trial to her feelings must have been very
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"But I thought the severe discipline through which she had passed,
had chastened and subdued her," answered Constance. "I saw, or
believed that I saw, the beginnings of a new and true life in her
soul.
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