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After shaking hands with Dorothea, he bowed as slightly as possible to

Ladislaho repaid the slightness exactly, and then going towards

Dorothea, said--

"Iwhile"

Dorothea put out her hand and said her good-by cordially The sense

that Sir Ja rudely to hinity: there was no touch of confusion in

her manner And when Will had left the room, she looked with such calm

self-possession at Sir Jaed to behave as if nothing had annoyed hi otherwise? Indeed, Sir James shrank with so ht of Dorothea with Ladislaw

as her possible lover, that he would himself have wished to avoid an

outward show of displeasure which would have recognized the

disagreeable possibility If any one had asked him why he shrank in

that way, I a

fuller or h on reflection

heDorothea's

h to cast

unfitness over any relation at all between theer because he felt himself unable to interfere

But Sir Ja at

that est reasons through

which Will's pride beca him asunder from

Dorothea