text:  Now instead he presented the unused money--would she retain the image of a sweetheart in the home of her stern and lordly husband? Her heart confessed that she must no longer wish for it--but it sunk within her at the thought how soon that innocent would be a guilty wish; and when he surprised her with the money so suddenly she involuntarily shuddered forebore to close her hand upon it let it slide from her palm and murmured only with her innocent plaintiff voice "I shall never have your picture now--_never_!" And then she dejected her eyes to the little parcel of letters written received kissed and kept like something holy so long in vain; and all the charming hopeful hours in which each was found when some longer absence had given to each a deeper interest and higher value--those hours never to return came shadowing over her mind memory and soul and a lethargy of despairing grief imposed a ghost-like semblance of calm on her whole figure and her face slowly assumed a deadly paleness even to the lips visible even by the moon