The girl certainly is attached to
him, and I have no doubt the union will be, as you say, a happy one."
"You know in your soul," she replied, "that she detests him; and you
know she would sacrifice her life this moment sooner than marry him."
"What, then, do you mean." he asked, "and why do you thus contradict
yourself?"
"Good-by, Thomas Gourlay," she replied. "So far as regards either the
past or the future, you will hear nothing further from me to-day; but,
mark me, we shall meet again---and we have met before."
"That, certainly, is not true," he said, "unless it might be
accidentally on the highway; but, until this moment, my good woman, I
don't remember to have seen your face in my life."
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She looked toward the sky, and pointing her long, skinny finger upwards,
said, "How will you be prepared to render an account of all your deeds
and iniquities before Him who will judge you there!"
There was a terrible calmness, a dreadful solemnity on her white,
ghastly features as she spoke, and pointed to the sky, after which she
passed on in silence and took no further notice of the Black Baronet.
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