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But Will at last turned away froain

"I o," he said, with that peculiar look of the eyes which

so, as if they had been tired and

burned with gazing too close at a light

"What shall you do in life?" said Dorothea, timidly "Have your

intentions reood-by before?"

"Yes," said Will, in a tone that seemed to waive the subject as

uninteresting "I shall work away at the first thing that offers I

suppose one gets a habit of doing without happiness or hope"

"Oh, what sad words!" said Dorothea, with a dangerous tendency to sob

Then trying to sree that ere alike

in speaking too strongly"

"I have not spoken too strongly now," said Will, leaning back against

the angle of the wall "There are certain things which a h once in his life; and he must know some time or other that

the best is over with hi--that is all What I careelse is absolutely forbidden toout of my reach, but forbidden me, even if it ithinI respect ht do who had seen heaven in

a trance"