{"product_id":"2940012898135","title":"A RECONSTRUCTED MARRIAGE","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      I A PROSPECTIVE MOTHER-IN-LAW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     II PREPARING FOR THE BRIDE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    III THE BRIDE'S HOMECOMING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     IV FOES IN THE HOUSEHOLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      V BAD AT BEST\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VI THE NAMING OF THE CHILD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VII THE NEW CHRISTINA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   VIII A RUNAWAY BRIDE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     IX THE LAST STRAW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      X THEODORA MAKES A NEW LIFE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XI CHRISTINA AND ISABEL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XII ROBERT CAMPBELL GOES WOOING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XIII THE RECONSTRUCTED MARRIAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA RECONSTRUCTED MARRIAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA PROSPECTIVE MOTHER-IN-LAW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs it was Saturday morning, Mrs. Traquair Campbell was examining her\u003cbr\u003eweekly accounts and clearing off her week's correspondence; for she\u003cbr\u003efound it necessary to her enjoyment of the Sabbath Day that her mind\u003cbr\u003eshould be free from all worldly obligations. This was one of the\u003cbr\u003einviolable laws of Traquair House, enunciated so frequently and so\u003cbr\u003epositively by its mistress, that it was seldom violated in any way.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was therefore with fear and uncertainty that Miss Campbell ventured\u003cbr\u003eto break this rule, and to open softly the door of her mother's room. No\u003cbr\u003enotice was taken of the intruder for a few moments, but her presence\u003cbr\u003eproving disastrous to the total of a line of figures which Mrs. Campbell\u003cbr\u003ewas adding, she looked up with visible annoyance and asked:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What do you want, Isabel? You are disturbing me very much, and you know\u003cbr\u003eit.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I beg pardon, mother, but I think the occasion will excuse me.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What is the occasion?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There is something in my brother's room that I feel sure you ought to\u003cbr\u003esee.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Could you not have waited until I had finished my work here?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No, mother. It is Saturday, and Robert may be home by an early train. I\u003cbr\u003ethink he will, for he is apparently going to England.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Going to England, so near the Sabbath? Impossible! What set your\u003cbr\u003ethoughts on that track?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"His valise is packed, and directed to Sheffield; but I think he will\u003cbr\u003estop at a town called Kendal. He may go to Sheffield afterwards, of\u003cbr\u003ecourse.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kendal! Where is Kendal? I never heard of the place. What do you know\u003cbr\u003eabout it?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nothing at all. But in going over the mail, I noticed that four letters\u003cbr\u003ewith the Kendal post-office stamp came to Robert this week. They were\u003cbr\u003eall addressed in the same handwriting--a woman's.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Isabel Campbell!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is the truth, mother.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Why did you not name this singular circumstance before?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It was not my affair. Robert would likely have been angry at my\u003cbr\u003enoticing his letters. I have no right to interfere in his life. You\u003cbr\u003ehave--if it seems best to do so.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Have you told me all?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"No, mother.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What else?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"There is on his dressing table, loosely folded in tissue paper, an\u003cbr\u003eexquisite Bible.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Very good. Robert cannot have The Word too exquisitely bound.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I do not think Robert intends this copy of the Word for his own use.\u003cbr\u003eNo, indeed!\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Why should you think different?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is bound in purple velvet. The corner pieces are of gold, and a\u003cbr\u003elittle gold plate on the cover has engraved upon it the word _Theodora_.\u003cbr\u003eCan you imagine Robert Traquair Campbell using a Bible like that? It\u003cbr\u003ewould be remarked by every one in the church. I am sure of it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMrs. Campbell had dropped her pencil and had quite forgotten her\u003cbr\u003eaccounts and letters. Her hard, handsome face was flushed with anger,\u003cbr\u003eher tawny-colored eyes full of calculating mischief, as she demanded\u003cbr\u003ewith scornful passion:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What is your opinion, Isabel?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I can only have one opinion, mother. You know on what occasion a young\u003cbr\u003eman gives such a Bible. I am compelled to believe that Robert is engaged\u003cbr\u003eto marry some woman called Theodora, who lives probably at Kendal.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"He can not! He shall not! He must marry Jane Dalkeith,--Jane, and no\u003cbr\u003eother woman. I will not permit him to bring a stranger here, and an\u003cbr\u003eEnglishwoman is out of all consideration. _Theodora, indeed! Theodora!_\"\u003cbr\u003eand she flung the three words from her with a scorn no language could\u003cbr\u003etranscribe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is not a Scotch name, mother. I never knew any one called\u003cbr\u003eTheodora.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Scotch? the idea! Does it sound like Scotch? No, not a letter of it.\u003cbr\u003eThere were never any Theodoras among the Traquairs, or the Campbells,\u003cbr\u003eand I will not have any. Robert will find that out very quickly. Why,\u003cbr\u003eIsabel, Honor is before Love, and Honor compels Robert to marry Jane\u003cbr\u003eDalkeith. 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