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somebody else to-morrow; she would have derived only pain, and no

pleasure, fro me pain; she would far rather have wounded her own

breast than mine How could it be, then, that I did not like her much

the better of the two?

"Biddy," said I, ere walking hoht"

"I wish I could!" said Biddy

"If I could only getso openly to such an old acquaintance?"

"Oh dear, not at all!" said Biddy "Don't etfor me"

"But you never will, you see," said Biddy

It did not appear quite so unlikely to , as it would have

done if we had discussed it a few hours before I therefore observed

I was not quite sure of that But Biddy said she was, and she said it

decisively In ht; and yet I took it

rather ill, too, that she should be so positive on the point