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ons with which a woman with a past often inspires an innocent and unworldly young was sincerely and truly religious by nature, and as spotless as a maiden in mind and he had dreamed of a wife, it was always of some shy, innocent girl whom he should woo almost from her mother39。s arms。some gentle, pious maid, carefully reared, who would help him to establish the Christian household of his had thought that love would first e to him as admiring respect, then tender friendship, then love for some such maiden。instead it had swooped down upon him in the form of an intense passion for an absolute strangera woman travelling with a theatrical was like a sleeper who awakens suddenly and finds a scorching midday sun beating upon his wrecked freight train upon the track detained for several hours the car in which they passengers waived ceremony and conversed to pass the time, and Mr Irving learnt Berene39。s name, occupation and followed her for a week, and at the end of that time asked her hand in after he had heard the story of her life, he was not deterred from his resolve to make her his the Christian charity of his nature, all its chivalry was aroused, and he believed he was plucking a brand from the never repented his lived wholly for his wife and child, and for the good he could do with them as his faithful drew more and more away from all the allurements of the world, and strove to rear Joy in what he believed to be a purely Christian life, and to make his wife forget, if possible, that she had ever known a of sincere gratitude, tenderness, and gentleaffection possible for her to feel, Berene bestowed upon her husband during his life, and gave to his memory after he was had been excessively fond of Mr Irving, and it was the dread of causing her a deep sorrow in the knowledge that she was not his child, and the fear that Preston Cheney would in any way interfere with her possession of Joy, which had distressed the mother during the visit of the Baroness, rather than unwillingness to have her sin revealed to her to this, the intrusion of the Baroness into this long hidden and sacred experience seemed a sacrilege from which she shrank with she now told the tale to Arthur Stuart frankly and fearlessly.