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The Colonel could almost have said, "Better such foolishness than such

wisdom, such repulsion than such attraction" He was much struck by

Rachel's distress, and the absence of all female spite and triumph,

e-enerous

"It is a very sad moment to be undeceived," he said; "one would rather

have one's faults coht in one's life than afterwards"

They were simple words, so simple that the terrible truth hich

they were connected, did not coitation, she dreards her a book, an ivory-bound

Prayer-book, full of illu, and her eye

fell upon the awful verse, "So long as thou doest well unto thyself,

ood of thee" It was al in the midst of the hoards, for which poor Bessie had sold

herself She rose up, with a sob of oppressive grief, and broke out,

"Oh! at least it is a cohtest! Only too right! but you can settle all this without hily; "need he know of this? I can't bear that he should"

"Nor I," said Colonel Keith, "it was the reason that I alad you are

here alone"

"Oh, thank you! No one need ever know," added Rachel

"I fear my brother must see the accounts, as they have to be paid, but