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"And I am so plain, you see, Die We should never suit"

"Plain! You? Not at all You are rilled alive in Calcutta" And again she earnestly

conjuredout with her brother

"I must indeed," I said; "for when just now I repeated the offer of

serving him for a deacon, he expressed himself shocked at my want of

decency He see to accompany him unmarried: as if I had not from the

first hoped to find in hiarded him as

such"

"What makes you say he does not love you, Jane?"

"You should hear hiain

explained that it is not himself, but his office he wishes to mate

He has told me I am formed for labour--not for love: which is true,

no doubt But, in my opinion, if I am not fore Would it not be strange,

Die, to be chained for life to a arded one but as a

useful tool?"

"Insupportable--unnatural--out of the question!"

"And then," I continued, "though I have only sisterly affection for

hiine the