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perceived that distinctly, Dorothea?"

"Yes," said Dorothea, rather tremulously She felt sick at heart

"And now I think that I can take soed her to put out the lights When she had

lain down too, and there was a darkness only broken by a dull glow on

the hearth, he said--

"Before I sleep, I have a request to make, Dorothea"

"What is it?" said Dorothea, with dread in her mind

"It is that you will let me know, deliberately, whether, in case of my

death, you will carry outwhat

I should deprecate, and apply yourself to do what I should desire"

Dorothea was not taken by surprise:her

to the conjecture of soht

make a new yoke for her She did not answer ie in his tone

"No, I do not yet refuse," said Dorothea, in a clear voice, the need of

freedo itself within her; "but it is too solenorant what it will bind me

to Whatever affection pro"