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"You--are not hurt?" she inquired anxiously

"Hurt?" said Barnabas, "no, not hurt, Mistress Clereat deal--older"

"I saw it all, through the , and yet I--don't knohy you are

alive"

"I think because I was so very much--afraid," said Barnabas

"Sir," said she, with her brown hands clasped together, "was it

for--if it was for--my sake that you--quarrelled, and--"

"No," said Barnabas, "it was because of--another"

Nohen he said this, Clemency stared at him wide-eyed, and, all

in a moment, flushed painfully and turned away, so that Barnabas

wondered

"Good-by!" said she, suddenly, and crossed to the door, but upon the

threshold paused; "I did pray for you," she said, over her shoulder