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"And I have written so far without a word on the great subject of all,

the joy untold for which our hearts had ached so long, and which we

owe entirely to you, for Edward owns that nothing but your personal

representations would have brought him, and, as I suppose you already

know--he so much hated the whole subject of Maddox's treachery that

he had flung aside, unread, all that he saw related to it Dear Colin,

whatever else you have done, you have filled a famished heart Could you

but have seen Ailie's face all last evening as she sat by his side,

you would have felt your reward--it was as if the worn, anxious, almost

sternout

as of old when she was the family pet, before Julia took her away to be

finished She sees no change; she is in an ecstasy of glas that Edward is so ed, till I al in him the traces

that these sad years have left, and that poor little Rose herself has

detected No, he is not so

to hireatly increased the old

dreaminess that ays tried to combat, and he seems less able than

before to turn his mind into any channel but the one i when roused, but infinitely more inclined to fall

off into a e in

hietting