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"Very willingly," he rejoined; and rising, he strode a little

distance up the pass, threw himself down on a swell of heath, and

there lay still

"I CAN do what he wants e that," I meditated,--"that is, if life be sparedprotracted under an

Indian sun What then? He does not care for that: when n ave land, I should leave a loved but empty land--Mr Rochester is not

there; and if he were, what is, what can that ever be toso absurd, so weak as

to drag on froe in circuht reunite me to him Of course

(as St John once said) I must seek another interest in life to

replace the one lost: is not the occupation he now offers n? Is it not, by its

noble cares and sublime results, the one best calculated to fill the

void left by uptorn affections and demolished hopes? I believe I

must say, Yes--and yet I shudder Alas! If I join St John, I

abandon half o to preland for India, and

India for the grave, be filled? Oh, I knoell! That, too, is

very clear toto satisfy St John till my

sinews ache, I SHALL satisfy him--to the finest central point and