The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim (books to read now txt) 📕

what he had listened for so long, the hope seemed frozen into fear. He sat a little forward in his easy-chair, his hands gripping its sides, his eyes fixed upon the slowly widening crack in the panel. It was as it had been before. She stooped low, stood up again and came towards him. From behind an unseen hand closed the panel. She came to him with her arms outstretched and all the wonderful things of life and love in her shining eyes. That faint touch of the somnambulist had passed. She came to him as she had never come before. She was a very real and a very live woman.

“Everard!” she cried.

He took her into his arms. At their first kiss she thrilled from head to foot. For a moment she laid her head upon his shoulder.

“Oh, I have been so silly!” she confessed. “There were times when I couldn’t believe that you were my Everard⁠—mine! And now I know.”

Her lips sought his again, his parched with the desire of years. Along the corridor, the old doctor tiptoed his way to his room, with a pleased smile upon his face.

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The Great Impersonation
was published in 1920 by
E. Phillips Oppenheim.

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