"The lash cuts to the bone. A chain, riveted to an iron belt encircling her waist, bound her to the wall. "But if it is thy will to take me from him," she continued, as soon as her emotion permitted her,—"if he must be left an orphan amid strangers, implant, I beseech thee, a mother's feelings in some other bosom, and raise up a friend, who shall be to him what I would have been. She could not help but admit that she liked being smiled at and addressed in the hallways by hordes of friendly faces. All her pride raged at me. ‘It is, you understand, that Monsieur Charvill did not—how do you say in English?—having an eye to an eye—’ ‘Didn’t see eye to eye with the Vicomte Valade? That I can well believe. At last, she breathed. But after the first shock came a warm glow of relief. Beyond the steps was a pole-chair in readiness.
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