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abandoned; it would only postpone the struggle with Willia That

inflexible face of duty would hunt her doherever she was, and take

the child fro to do: parry his

threat of confessing to Dr Lavendar that he had "iven to her, by a confession of her

own, a confession which should ad its cause, and at the same time hold such promises

for the future that the old ht have

David Then she could turn upon her enemy with the triumphant

declaration that she had forestalled him; that she had said exactly

what he had threatened to say,--no more, no less And yet the child

was hers! But as she tried to plan how she should put it, the idea

eluded her She would tell Dr Lavendar thus and so: but even as she

-rooination Alice's ignorance of her existence

beca to say to Dr Lavendar turned

into a denunciation of Lloyd Pryor; he was vile, and cruel, and

contemptible! But these words stureed to Lloyd's silence to his daughter; and, suddenly, to her

areed, not only to the silence, but to

his objection toher It would be an offence for her to live

with Alice! Marriage, which would have quitted this new tor

sense of responsibility and made her like other people, would not have