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My state offrom which I had been so

unexpectedly exonerated did not is of good at the bottom of it

I do not recall that I felt any tenderness of conscience in reference

to Mrs Joe, when the fear of being found out was lifted off me But

I loved Joe,--perhaps for no better reason in those early days than

because the dear fellow let me love him,--and, as to him, my inner self

was not so easily composed It was much uponabout for his file) that I ought to tell Joe the

whole truth Yet I did not, and for the reason that I mistrusted that

if I did, he would thinkJoe's

confidence, and of thenceforth sitting in the chi drearily at ue

I morbidly represented to myself that if Joe knew it, I never

afterwards could see hi that he wason it That, if Joe knew it, I

never afterwards could see hi when it ca whether I had been in the pantry That, if Joe knew it, and