"
She arose and rang the bell, and gave orders to have two seats secured
for her in the coach that would leave in the morning for Baltimore. And
then she began to walk up and down the floor, to try and walk off the
excitement that was fast gaining upon her.
Before this night and this discovery, not for the world would Marian
have made her existence known to him, far less would she have sought his
presence. Nay, deeming such a meeting improper as it was impossible, her
mind had never contemplated it for an instant. She had watched his
course, sent anonymous donations to his charities, hoped much from his
repentance and good works, but never hoped in any regard to herself. But
now it was absolutely necessary that she should make her existence known
to him. She would go to him! She must save him! She should see him, and
speak to him--him whom she had never hoped to meet again in life! She
would see him again in three days! The thought was too exciting even for
her strong heart and frame and calm, self-governing nature! And in
defiance of reason and of will, her long-buried youthful love, her pure,
earnest, single-hearted love, burst its secret sepulchre, and rejoiced
through all her nature. The darkness of the past was, for the time,
forgotten.
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