Temper; Or, Domestic Scenes, a Tale in Three Volumes Volume 3

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1812 edition. Excerpt: ... swered, in some confusion, that their name was Williams. " No, it is not," replied St. Aubyn, looking at her steadily. " Your name, I am convinced, is Cammell." " Who speaks to me?" cried the invalid. " Who wants Cammell?" And the wife, assured that all further concealment was vain, dropped the food she was conveying to her mouth, and in a tone of terror exclaimed, " I see, sir, you know all about us; but pray, pray, sir, be merciful!" " Did you," asked St. Aubyn, " ever hear your husband talk of having torn from a book-the registry of a marriage?' " Never, when in his senses; but very Kkely you will hear him talk of a marriage register in one of his raving fits." " Have you," said St. Aubyn, who saw the poor wretch sink back exhausted on his pillow, " have you any objection to my opening that pocket-book? for I have heard enough to induce me to set a guard on your husband, in order to bring him to justice for an act of a most wicked nature, by which he has greatly injured some of the dearest friends I have." The terrified woman, falling on her knees, begged he would do as he thought proper; and St.Aubyn, getting possession of the pocketbook, had the inexpressible delight to draw forth from it, doubled in many folds, and each fold ready to fall in pieces, the registry of the marriage of George Danvers and Agatha Torrington; with the date and every thing perfect. There would now, then, he was well convinced, be no longer any difficulty in. publicly proving Agatha to be the lawful wife of Danvers, as Mr. Egerton had in his custody the letter from Jamaica, to prove the day and hour when the first wife died: therefore the date of the marriage register would show, beyond dispute, the truth truth of what Agatha had always asserted, that when...