” Her aunt answered in a low voice: “I was engaged to him, dear, for seven years, and then he died. He had very nearly cleared the board, when a knock was heard below, and descending at the summons, he found his two janizaries. A chain, riveted to an iron belt encircling her waist, bound her to the wall. Ann Veronica felt suddenly an effect of tremendous pathos; she would have given anything to have been able to frame and make some appeal, some utterance that should bridge this bottomless chasm that had opened between her and her father, and she could find nothing whatever to say that was in the least sincere and appealing. " He had now gained the high road. Time enough to do so when she has her affairs settled—if she can settle them.
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