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"Because I had come in, in Mary's stead, with the tray"

"And there is enchant with

you Who can tell what a dark, dreary, hopeless life I have dragged

on for ht

in day; feeling but the sensation of cold when I let the fire go

out, of hunger when I forgot to eat: and then a ceaseless sorrow,

and, at tiain

Yes: for her restoration I longed, far ht How can it be that Jane is with me, and says she loves

me? Will she not depart as suddenly as she came? To-morrow, I fear

I shall find her no more"

A commonplace, practical reply, out of the train of his own

disturbed ideas, was, I was sure, the best andfor

hier over his eyebrows,

and remarked that they were scorched, and that I would apply

sorow as broad and black as ever

"Where is the use of doing ood in any way, beneficent spirit,

when, at so like a

shadohither and how to

afterwards undiscoverable?

"Have you a pocket-comb about you, sir?"

"What for, Jane?"