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Ada Cambridge. Materfamilias
Materfamilias
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE BEGINNING OF IT ALL
CHAPTER II. IN THE EARLY DAYS
CHAPTER III. A PAGE OF LIFE
CHAPTER IV. THE BROKEN CIRCLE
CHAPTER V. A LITTLE MISUNDERSTANDING
CHAPTER VI. DEPOSED
CHAPTER VII. A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT
CHAPTER VIII. THE SILVER WEDDING
CHAPTER IX. GRANDMAMMA
CHAPTER X. VINDICATED
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Ada Cambridge
Published by Good Press, 2021
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He took my face between his hands and gazed at it, as if he would look down through my eyes to the bottom of my soul. I shut them after a moment, and tears began to ooze between the lids at the thought that he could doubt me. One trickled out and splashed upon his knee, and my heart began to heave with the impulse to cry in earnest. Then he drew my face—drew me into his arms, and we sat a little without speaking, hearing our hearts thump.
"We'll chance it, shall we?" he whispered between short breaths. "Sooner or later it must come to that, and better as soon as possible if I have to leave you in Melbourne alone. You won't be so much alone if you belong to me, even when I am away—will you, sweetheart?"
