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"In my heart, Richard, there is only room for you Neil Semple I fear

and dislike"

"They will "

"No; that they can never do"

"But I suffer in the fear I suffer a thousand deaths If you were only

at his side; and she put her arainst his "Only your wife I will

be That is what I desire also"

"Now, Katherine? This ? Make me sure of the felicity

you have promised You have my word of honour, that as Katherine Van

Heeain ask you to come here But it is past my

impatience to exist, and not see you Katherine Hyde would have the

right to come"

"Oh, my love, my love!"

"See how I tremble, Katherine Life scarcely cares to inhabit a body so

weak If you refuse o If you refuse me, I shall know

that in your heart you expect to e who has

onies"

"Never will I marry him, Richard,--never, never My word is true You

only I willHere is the special

license froovernor; yood fortune has dressed

you in bridal beauty Now, Katherine? No!"

She rose, and stood white and tre by his dear side,--speechless,