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"MARGARET ELGINBROD."
Hugh burst into tears on reading this letter, -- with no overpowering
sense of his own sin, for he felt that he was forgiven; but with a
sudden insight into the beauty and grandeur of the man whom he had
neglected, and the wondrous loveliness which he had transmitted from
the feminine part of his nature to the wholly feminine and therefore
delicately powerful nature of Margaret. The vision he had beheld in
the library at Arnstead, about which, as well as about many other
things that had happened to him there, he could form no theory
capable of embracing all the facts -- this vision returned to his
mind's eye, and he felt that the glorified face he had beheld must
surely have been Margaret's, whether he had seen it in the body or
out of the body: such a face alone seemed to him worthy of the
writer of this letter. Purposely or not, there was no address given
in it; and to his surprise, when he examined the envelope with the
utmost care, he could discover no postmark but the London one. The
date-stamp likewise showed that it must have been posted in London.
"So," said he to himself, "in my quest of a devil, I may cross the
track of an angel, who knows? But how can she be here?"
To this of course he had no answer at hand.
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