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"I have seen the pictures you painted while you were away They revealed

the story to me--as much of it as I care to know"

"There is now no secrecy in the o to America for two years At the end of that tie"

"Poor Uncle John! I wonder how people can toil and deny therown children! When they coenerally trample upon all their love and labor For instance, you see a

tall, large, handsome woman in what you think picturesque poverty, you

want her, just as you used to want the fastest boat on the river, or the

fastest horse in the field The fact that you ought not to have her, that

you cannot have her, except by tra on all your father's dearest

hopes, does not, in the least, control you You can conceive of nothing

better than the gratification of your oishes If all the men were like

you, and all the wo in

the world, Allan Campbell!"

"Mary, if you should ever be really in love, you will then excuse y which you will understand or accept Forgive

tio happily

if we are at variance" He sat down by her side, and she let him take her

hand, and plead the memory of all their past affection for, and reliance