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I looked towards the knoll: there he lay, still as a prostrate

colu watchful and keen

He started to his feet and approached o free"

"Your answer requires a commentary," he said; "it is not clear"

"You have hitherto been my adopted brother--I, your adopted sister:

let us continue as such: you and I had better not marry"

He shook his head "Adopted fraternity will not do in this case

If you were my real sister it would be different: I should take

you, and seek no wife But as it is, either our union e, or it cannot exist: practical

obstacles oppose themselves to any other plan Do you not see it,

Jane? Consider a uide you"

I did consider; and still my sense, such as it was, directed me only

to the fact that we did not love each other as ht not to ard you as a brother--you, me as a sister:

so let us continue"

"We cannot--we cannot," he answered, with short, sharp

detero with me

to India: remember--you have said that"

"Conditionally"