, appeared at
that instant before them, they could not have been more confounded.
Lord Chetwynde, however, was cool and calm. There was nothing in his
secret which was very important, and there was therefore no wordnetfear of a
discovery to disturb the unfeigned  that mingled with his 
at this sudden appearance of his old nurse, blended also with deep
and sharp  at the weary, wan, and wretched face that he saw
before him. As to his assumed name and the revelation of his true
one, that did not  him at all, for he could give his
explanation very readily. But with Zillah it was different. Rightly
or wrongly, she considered her secret a  which should be guarded
like her 's blood; and now she saw suddenly before her the
certainty of a full and grand disclosure--a disclosure, too, not
merely in the presence of Obed Chute, but of Windham also. Yet even
this wordnetfear, terrible as it would have been at other times, was
successfully mastered, and her generous and loving nature turned away
from selfish wordnetfear, with wordnetdesire and  and , to this dear old
friend; and these , mingling together at that sudden sight,
drove away all others.

But now to these succeeded a new , which was overwhelming.
For just as she started,