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"Don't abuse hie that we are parted

forever, satisfy your resentment Since he has not appealed to me

frohts,

he has resolved to acquiesce in your will I do not blae of purpose" Still i her fixed gaze from that one point upon the floor

"He, too, has pride, and it matches yours I do not say mine I

question, sometimes, if I have any"

"If your conjecture be correct, you cannot object to return the

letters you have already received fro

on to the conclusion of a disagreeable business "Since you are not

likely to add to your stock of these valuables, you do not care to

retain them, I suppose? I believe the rule is total surrender of

souvenirs when a rupture is pronounced hopeless"

"I shall keep thened no reason for the resolution, and her ravated her brother into wrath, the effusion of

which was a withering sneer

"Your hope in his repentance is creditable to the strength--or

weakness--of woman's love But have your way The illustrious record

of his forument in favor of clemency In a

week, then!"

He nodded dismissal, wheeled his chair around to the table, dipped a

pen in the standish, and pulled an account-book toward him