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"You are young, beautiful, life will console you; you are noble, and the

ood deed will redee the

six otten me I wrote to hiht have died and he not

known it!

"Whateverotherwise than as you have

lived, Armand, who loves you, will never consent to the seclusion to

which his modest fortune would condemn you, and to which your beauty

does not entitle you Who knohat he would do then! He has ga you of it, I know also, but, in a ht have lost part of what I have saved, during hter's portion, for hiht have happened may yet happen

"Are you sure, besides, that the life which you are giving up for hiain come to attract you? Are you sure, you who have loved

him, that you will never love another? Would you not-suffer on seeing

the hindrances set by your love to your lover's life, hindrances for

which you would be powerless to console hihts of

ambition should succeed to dreams of love? Think over all that, madame

You love Armand; prove it to hi it to hi your love to his future No

misfortune has yet arrived, but one will arrive, and perhaps a greater