Excerpt from The Memoirs of a Femme De Chambre, Vol. 3 of 3: A Novel Of her gentle mistress on these occasions; yet when, as was his custom, Mr. Fraser entered the dressing-room abruptly, without even knock ing at the door, and examined the countenances of his wife and herself, as if he suspected they were carrying on some secret plot, she rejoiced that size could meet his searching glance undis mayed, and that his scrutiny all over the cham ber, in order to discover something to justify his suspicions, was fruitless. The most jealous husband could not betray more anxiety or inge unity to detect some clue to a love affair, by which his honour and peace would be compromised, than did this self-tormentor, to find out whether his innocent and unhappy wife kept up any communication with her family. When her cheek grew pale, and her eyes betrayed that sleep Was a stranger to them, he would send off for the most eminent physician, to whom he would state his fears for her health, which he declared was dearer to him than life; and, for the next three or four days, he would watch her countenance with all the trembling dread. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.