Cruel As The Grave

glance o

anger

l 's the

the scene of their domestic joy was just now but an inn-parlor. Both the yo

ch it-yes, how glad! For, paradoxical as it may seem to say so, there is no happiness so perfect as that which looks forward to something still more pe

converse they heard the sound of we

oked at each ot

room on the opposite side of the

red Sybil, looking up

me woman in distre

s, dear, will you?

ly dreadful to be reminded just then that

matter. Do, dear," she insis

y may be a party to some little domestic misunderstanding, with which it would be

such things should be! Fancy you and I having a m

ort, my darling; Heaven forbid th

! Oh, how I wish I could do something for her! Oh, Lyon, are you sure it would b

e. If this should be a case in which we can be of service, we shall be likely to know it wh

ling in her ears. She left her chair and began to walk up and d

sage opened, and the voice of the landlord was

world. Keep up your spirits, ma'am. Something may turn up yet, you know," he said as he closed the o

while Sybil paused in her restless w

they could not have told

d the door behind him, and adv

t really you know, 'Rachel weeping for her children' was nothing to this woman. She's been going on in this way for the last three days, sir. I did hope she would be quiet this even

on our own account; it is to hear a fellow creature in so

ir; wor

ners delicately investigating the case, while Sy

And I may say, a case of extreme difficulty as well! A case in which I need counsel myself, sir,"