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She was a woht have in deciding a question she could recognise the necessity of a decision and could abide by it when she hadherself to think that an Earl of Scroope should be false to a promise by which he had seduced a woht Her very heart bled within her as she acknowledged the necessity A lie to her was abominable A lie, to be told by herself, would have been hideous to her A lie to be told by him, orse As virtue, what she called virtue, was the one thing indispensable to wo indispensable toresolved so to tell him, must use all her intellect to defend the lie,--and to insist upon it

He was deter that she could do to prevent his return She could not bid hier He was his own h at her Of authority with him she had none If she spoke, he must listen Her position would secure so much to her from courtesy,--and were she to speak of the duty which he owed to his nah She therefore sent to hio to her in her own room? Of course he attended to her wishes and went "You mean to leave us to-morrow, Fred," she said We all know the peculiar solemnity of a 's dress,--the look of self-sacrifice on the part of the wonised the fact that if the woman be deterred by no necessities of oeconomy in her toilet,--as in such material circumstances the splendour is more perfect if splendour be the object,--so also is the self-sacrifice more abject And with thisan appearance of melancholy solemnity, almost of as natural to her She was one whose life had ever been serious, solemn, and sad Wealth and the outward ponity; and with that doubtless there had reached her soiven her comfort, and a routine of small duties had saved her frohter, and had seldoarded her course as run, and looked upon herself as one who, in speaking, almost spoke fro lord She did inspire hiave her no authority, they did give her weight