407 "The Old Nurse's Story" by Elizabeth Gaskell
The History of Literature
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Miss Maud and Miss Grace Grew Colder and Bitterer to Each Other Every Day, and the Dark Foreigner Never Came Again.
The little girl was left at the farmhouse, and her mother used to have her horse settled and gallop wildly over the hills to see her once every week. And the old Lord went on playing, playing on his organ, and the servants thought the sweet music he made had soothed down his awful temper. The foreign musician came again the next summer but it was for the last time, for they led him such a life with their jealousy and their passions that he grew weary and went away, and never was heard of again. Miss Maud who had always meant to have her marriage acknowledged when her father should be dead, was left now a deserted wife whom nobody knew to have been
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