CHAPTER XXXVIII.
In the faco of death men behave according to their idiosyncracien. It was so with the Bad party assembled that night in the tower. Not one of them except Orinora eould look for life, and her fate was even more terrible than theirs : to be torn from the father and lover she adored, and to become the bride of a man she feared and hated : unless she took the alternative of poison. Her behavior puzzled her father and Herbert. She occasionally embraced them, but the moet of her time was spent at one of the windows kneeling, her eyes fixed on the bright Star of her worship. Again and again she would turn round and gaze in longing agony at her father and Herbert, then return to the contemplation of the Star. With her the terrible confliot of her mind seemed strong enough to sever spirit from body. "I cannot now," said John to Herbert,
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2030, 11 July 1885, Page 1 (Supplement)
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