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"Him I have not seen"

"Gracious powers, miss! Is that all you say, 'Him I have not seen'? Make

me patient with so insensible a creature! Here am I almost distracted

with one as to be past

knowledge, breaking his true heart for a sight of you; and you answer me

as if I had asked, 'Pray, have you seen the newspaper to-day?'"

Then Katherine covered her face, and sobbed with a hopelessness and

abandon that equally fretted Mrs Gordon "I wish I knew one corner of

this world inaccessible to lovers," she cried "Of all creatures, they

are thefor,

child?"

"If I could only see Richard,--only see hi to propose He will get better when he

has seen you I will call a coach, and ill go at once"