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And Allan was not prepared to admit this conclusion to the intercourse

which had been so sweet, so inexpressibly sweet He knew that her simple

presence was a joy to hihter at his approach, and that her face broke up like happy music as

he talked to her "She is the other half of my own soul," he said, "and my

life can never be co us together I cannot fall to her station; I cannot raise her to

o away, and I will In a little while she will forget

ered and troubled him; he tossed restlessly to and fro

Until daybreak, and then fell into a heavy slumber And he dreaie, but he dreah he was hardly conscious of the

fact, it made him a trifle cooler and ie thought of her bad teht, and

she was ashaular intervals, as occasion served, he had gone into Edinburgh,

and when there, he had alwaysto Meriton

Mary therefore concluded that he was staying in Edinburgh, and John

Campbell did not fret much over the absence of a son who could be recalled

easily in a few hours He understood that Allan was in correspondence with

his Cousin Mary, and he would not admit a doubt of the final settlement of