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He left the room In this brief hour I had learnt more of him than

in the whole previous month: yet still he puzzled me

Diana and Mary Rivers beca their brother and their home They both

tried to appear as usual; bat the sorrow they had to struggle

against was one that could not be entirely conquered or concealed

Diana inti from any they

had ever yet known It would probably, as far as St John was

concerned, be a parting for years: itfor life

"He will sacrifice all to his long-fras more potent still St John looks

quiet, Jane; but he hides a fever in his vitals You would think

his he is inexorable as death; and the

worst of it is, my conscience will hardly permit me to dissuade him

from his severe decision: certainly, I cannot for a ht, noble, Christian: yet it breaks ushed to her fine eyes Mary bent her head

low over her work

"We are noithout father: we shall soon be without home and

brother," she murmured, At that moment a little accident supervened, which seee, that "ly," and to add to their distresses the vexing one of

the slip between the cup and the lip St John passed the