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"You have, indeed!" said Sir Nor listened, much

shocked and displeased, at this open confession; "and to one of them it

is beyond our power to atone Do you know the life of ned?"

"I know it all, and have repented for it in my own heart, in dust

and ashes! Even I--unlike all other earthly creatures as I aht or day since Froht of theone

has been known to me, and added to my own; and yet I could not, or would

not, undo what I had done Leoline knows all now; and she will tell

Hubert, since destiny has brought theiveand happy

lives before the to the dead"

"But you are not dead," said Sir Norman; "and there is repentance and

pardon for all Much as you have wronged theive you;

and Heaven is not less merciful than they!"

"They may; for I have striven to atone In my house there are proofs and

papers that will put them in possession of all, and more than all, they

have lost But life is a burden of torture I will bear no longer The

death of hiedy of my

miserable life; and if my hour were not at hand, I should not have told