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"Let deters to destiny

Hold unbewailed their way"

If Katherine had lived at this day, she would probably have spent her

time between her promise and its fulfil with her own conscience But the woo were not tossed about inds of various opinions, or

ht never

to be associated with dissent A few strong, plain dictates had been set

before Katherine as the law of her daily life; and she knew, beyond all

controversy, when she disobeyed them

In her own heart, she called the sin she had determined to commit by its

most unequivocal name "I shall make happy Richard; but ainst my own soul there will be the

lie" This was the position she admitted, but every woman is Eve in some

hours of her life The law of truth and wisdos within her reach, and, with a full

understanding of the consequences of disobedience, she takes the

forbidden pleasure And if the vocal, positive command of Divinity was

unheeded by the first woht not to

wonder that their coh dictated by truest love and clearest

wisdoainst the voice of