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"Well, I never! " gasped the widow, who, womanlike, was the first to find her tongue. "Is it really you, Billy? -- but I might have guessed it, from your writing. Yet it never entered my head! " She stopped and grew suddenly furious. "My husband, you wretch! -- have you killed him?"
"No, Clara Maria, no! I came here to give information about his poor body. I did not expect to find my sister -- the celebrated Miss de Crespigny -- in the person of Mrs. Warrender!"