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"I will tell you why Because Maggie loved you, and thought for you, and

would not put one dark drop into your cup of happiness Because she was

afraid that if you knew I loved her, you would think I had tried to help

you froirl would

not wound even your self complacency Do not think I a her I told my father, I told the only female relative I

have, how dear she was to me My father asked me to test my love by two

years' travel and absence I did so to convince hiie is? If you do, tellBible lying on a s its

leaves three letters "I have had these froow, the last received was posted three weeks

ago, fro well,

and you have but to read the letters to understand she is with those who

are more than kind to her There are feomen in Scotland that could

write a letter like her last It shows a mind well opened, and the pen o a

ready writer"