Chapter 35: Johanna Walks Abroad in Disguise

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​​‌​‌​‌‌‌​​​​​‌‌​‌​​​​​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌​‌‌‌‌​‌​​‌‌​​‌​‌⁠But, amid all the trials, and perplexities, and anxieties that beset the dramatis personæ of our story, who suffered like Johanna? What heart bled as hers bled? What heart heaved with sad emotion as hers heaved? Alas! poor Johanna, let the fate of Mark Ingestrie be what it might, he could not feel the pangs that tore thy gentle heart. Truly might she have said—

"Man's love is of his life a thing ap