A Point Of Conscience Volume 1 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ...meantime Maden has put together in her own mind Fenton's absence and Cecil's. And an awful agony of jealousy is destroying her. "Oh, to be dead! to be dead!" is the cry from her heart--that, silent, yet seems to be calling aloud to all the world. The very silence of it sutfocates her. She is now leaning listlessly against the corner of the stall, when she sees Cecil come with Carry from the direction of the shooting-gallery, and go straight to Cecil's stall, which has been looked after in her absence by a kindly spinster; and almost immediately after that Fenton comes on the scene by a different doorway. "Too clever!" thinks Maden to herself out of a heart filled with that deadly poison that is consuming her. "She by one door, he by the other! And all to deceive me! Oh, it is too much!" "What's the matter with you?" asks Fenton, going straight to her. "You look awfully fagged." "Do I?" "Have you not been out of this all day?" "You forget, surely. I was in the concertroom." She casts an anguished and most bitter glance at him. Has he forgotten that dear moment when his hand sought hers? Is it so small a thing to him, the meeting of those hands--that to her seems so sweet, so filled with eager joy--the memory alone of which has almost kept her from going mad during these two past intolerable hours? "I am not likely to forget that," says Fenton tenderly. He is always fascinated by her changeful temper. The fact that she is angry now gives her a fresh charm, and adds to the pleasure of that remembered passionate hand-clasp. "But"--lowering his voice--"is it possible, my darling, you have had no...