Loved at Last a Story - 2 Author:Mark Lemon Volume: 2 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1864 Original Publisher: B. Tauchnitz Subjects: Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Literary Criticism / General Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh Literary Criticism / Women Authors Notes: This is a black and white OCR repri... more »nt of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER III. FRANK LOCKYER RECEIVES AN INVITATION TO VISIT MISS WYCHERLY, AND THE INTERVIEW PRODUCES A BETTER UNDERSTANDING BETWEEN THEM. A NOTE from Mr. Wycherly, excusing himself from dinner, awaited Kate on her return to her lodging, and she appeared relieved by the communication, as she complained of indisposition. She therefore desired the servant to bring some tea and leave her undisturbed until she should ring the bell. Some agitating thoughts had taken possession of Kate since the visit of Ruth in the morning, and though she had suppressed them during the latter part of their interview and whilst they rode together, her disquietude had returned with increasedforce when Ruth had left her, and still continued to occupy her mind. What had given rise to them? It was evident that they were of a conflicting character -- now producing sorrow, now exciting to anger, as declared by her flushing face and her dilating eye. " I may be deceiving myself," she said half aloud ; " I trust I am " And then she folded her hands across her knees and gazed before her vacantly. After a time the dark cloud which had passed over her face in the morning came back again, and she compressed her lips together as though to restrain some indignant utterance. A gentle sorrow would then steal over her expressive features, and words which sounded like " Poor Ruth ! poor Ruth!" seemed to escape her lip...« less