Who is Vera? : a novel ; wherein English and Russian lives are interwoven . g, indeed, to possess vitality of thoughtunder my drug. A hideous smile played onMrs Morganes face as she formed her diabolicalmode of revenge; but she acted on her plan,and carried it through unflinchingly. Vera repeated her visit often to Magna House,but had grave suspicions that she could not re-concile to her conscience, and yet they wereonly suspicions, not founded on any substantialbasis, and impossible to be expressed in words. A Snake in the Grass. 163 She would have befriended Mr Morgane, but,alas! he would on
Who is Vera? : a novel ; wherein English and Russian lives are interwoven . g, indeed, to possess vitality of thoughtunder my drug. A hideous smile played onMrs Morganes face as she formed her diabolicalmode of revenge; but she acted on her plan,and carried it through unflinchingly. Vera repeated her visit often to Magna House,but had grave suspicions that she could not re-concile to her conscience, and yet they wereonly suspicions, not founded on any substantialbasis, and impossible to be expressed in words. A Snake in the Grass. 163 She would have befriended Mr Morgane, but,alas! he would only look on her in a vacantstare, as if she were something that camewithin his ken as he looked further to some in-definable object beyond her. He knew her,but he never addressed her by name again,or allowed her to touch his hand on arrival ordeparture; yet Mrs Morgane impressed on herthat he desired to see her. Vera felt she had her part to play, and she,too, called in the art of dissimulation, and al-lowed the patronage that Mrs Morgane lavishedupon her, and loathed CHAPTER XV. SEEK OUR
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