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CHAPTER XXIV. THE CRISIS.
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It was the night before the one appointed for the bridal, and in the solitude2 of her chamber3, a young girl wept in the utter hopelessness of despair. At the morrow’s early dawn he would be there to claim her as his bride, and though he was noble and good, there was in her heart no answering chord of love, and she knew that without such love their union would be unholy. Earnestly, and with many tears had she striven to awaken4 again the deep affection she had felt for him in the time gone by, but it could not be, and shudderingly5 she thought of the long weary years when she should be an unloving wife, bearing a crushed and aching heart, wherein was enshrined the memory of one, of whom it would soon be a sin to think.
On the table at her side lay her bridal dress, the gift of Richard Delafield, who, without a shadow on his brow, or a wavering in the tones of his voice, had asked her to accept it as a token of the esteem7 he should ever feel for her! Alas8, poor Rose, as your tears fell like rain upon the orange wreath which seemed to mock your woe9, how little did you dream of the anguish10 it cost the donor11 to say to you the words he did, or that your sorrow was naught12 compared to his, for you could weep, while to him this privilege 297was denied, and his was the hard task of enduring in silence the burning pain which no tear-drop came to moisten.
Slowly the hours of night wore away, and as the moon rose higher and higher in the heavens, her rays fell upon the bowed form of Rosa, who, with clasped hands and bloodless cheeks, sat just where first we saw her—praying—weeping—thinking, and praying again, until at last there came over her troubled spirit, a calm, which ere long, resolved itself into a
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perspiration
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applied
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demeanor
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maiden
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caressingly
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