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"I judged by your countenance, sir, which was troubled when you said

the suggestion had returned upon you I feel sure it ork you

more misery if you listen to it"

"Not at all--it bears the e in the world: for

the rest, you are not my conscience-keeper, so don't make yourself

uneasy Here, come in, bonny wanderer!"

He said this as if he spoke to a vision, viewless to any eye but his

own; then, folding his arms, which he had half extended, on his

chest, he see

"Now," he continued, again addressing uised deity, as I verify believe Already it has

done ood: my heart was a sort of charnel; it will now be a

shrine"

"To speak truth, sir, I don't understand you at all: I cannot keep

up the conversation, because it has got out of ood as you should like to

be, and that you regretted your own i I can

comprehend: you intimated that to have a sullied memory was a

perpetual bane It seems to me, that if you tried hard, you would

in time find it possible to become what you yourself would approve;