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"A kept wootten to come and see your sister

and me this year?"

"Yes, father, I admit it"

"You are very much in love with this woman?"

"You see it, father, since she has made iveness to-day"

My father, no doubt, was not expecting such categorical answers, for he

seemed to reflect a moment, and then said to me: "You have, of course, realized that you can not always live like that?"

"I fear so, father, but I have not realized it"

"But you must realize," continued my father, in a dryer tone, "that I,

at all events, should not per as I did nothing contrary to the

respect which I owe to the traditional probity of the fa, and this has reassured ard to the

fears I have had"

Passions are forgle, even with uerite

"Then, the moment is come when you must live otherwise"

"Why, father?"