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And here Hollingsworth stepped forward

"No wonder if the poor child's tongue is frozen in her mouth," said he;

and I think he positively frowned at Zenobia "The very heart will be

frozen in her boso you, with the

warsworth's appearance was very striking at this moment He was

then about thirty years old, but looked several years older, with his

great shaggy head, his heavy brow, his dark coth hich his features seemed to have

been hammered out of iron, rather than chiselled or ure was not tall, but inal occupation; which as the reader

probably knoas that of a blacksmith As for external polish, or

mere courtesy of manner, he never possessed entler moods, there was a tenderness

in his voice, eyes, esture, and in every indescribable

manifestation, which few men could resist and no woman But he now

looked stern and reproachful; and it ith that inauspicious sworth first an

his influence upon her life