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"No, no!" He sprang to his feet, and threide his ragged aresture "Italmost in a whisper, "I never kne

much I wanted her--how much I had wilfully tossed aside--till now!

I never realized the full misery of it all--till now! I could

have starved very well in tied it as quietly as inning again,

of co back to self-respect and--Helen, my God!" And, of a

sudden, he cast hirass by handfuls Then, alht up his hat "Sir," said he soers that still

quivered, "pray forgive that little ebullition of feeling; it

is over--quite over, but your tidings affected me, and I am not

quite myself at times; as I have already said, turnips and unripe

blackberries are not altogether desirable as a diet"

"Indeed," said I, "you see very hard at the battered hat, and

turning it round and round, "Mr Vibart, the devil is surprisingly

strong in some of us"

"True," said I

"My cousin, Sir Jasper, is a bookish fellow, and, as I have said,