Page 497 (1/2)

"Yes," said Will, i

away from her with irritation in his face "Of course I rossly insulted in your eyes and in the eyes of others

There has been a ainst my character I wish you to

know that under no circumstances would I have lowered iven htelse There was

no need of other safeguard against h"

Will rose from his chair with the last word and went--he hardly knehere; but it was to the projectingnearest him, which had been

open as now about the sao, when he and Dorothea had

stood within it and talked together Her whole heart was going out at

this nation: she only wanted to

convince him that she had never done him injustice, and he seemed to

have turned away from her as if she too had been part of the unfriendly

world

"It would be very unkind of you to suppose that I ever attributed any

to plead