Word: edithe
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Dates: during 1881-1881
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...WHAT is it? What has happened?" cried Edith. She, poor girl, did not dream what a terrible revelation had suddenly been vouchsafed me. Her face was white and shocked as my own; and, indeed, how should it be otherwise, seeing that I was so profoundly, mysteriously affected? For a moment it seemed as if the whole world was whirling away from me, and I was standing alone in space; I thought - if my startled brain did not in that first moment of incredulous and tragic bewilderment refuse to think at all - that I was certainly, must surely be, absolutely...
...What is the matter?" cried Edith again...
...poor Edith! She was trembling violently, as indeed she might; and the consciousness of her misery roused me to a sense of present duty. I knew I must combat my own feelings and control my own countenance. I must have time to think, too, - time to get away from the horrible presence of - Edith Austen's brother...
What was to be done? That question now presented itself before me with stern and unrelenting face. Forgetting what things had been, remaining content to be involved in this unexplained mystery, with what demeanor should I again meet Edith - and her brother? Her brother! The cruel thought forced itself upon me. That one incontrovertible fact was the tragic centre of circumstances, the one key to the dark and unknown future...
...went to find Edith. She was alone on the piazza, and she looked up with such a sadly tender face as I approached! - Well, I told her that I had been seized with sudden faintness, and that was all. I asked where her brother was; I was sorry for my seeming rudeness; and Mr. Edmund himself appeared then, and begged me say no more about it. We fell a-talking with each other. I could not help be impressed with the charm of his manner, for he reminded me very distinctly of his sister. Surely there was no dark hidden...