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"Rosa! dear friend! aindistressed you so sorely When

you can do it with comparative ease to yourself, I want you to tell

s ones again"

"I a a fluttering

sht sho corieved for your sake, and sorry because I had unwittingly

hurt you I was in hopes--I iined--"

"That I had ontlived my disappointment? You said, that sareen wounds in sewing rooo, by other and

harsher ht, I had not

time to ward off the point of the knife and it touched a raw spot

Don't let hten you! now that the worst is upon eley, in September, a year since,

when she as then Miss Aylett"--co hinified the later

change--"received her brother's command to reject me?"

"I was"

"He would never tell me upon what evil report his prohibition was

based He was more co the example of other wohly than she did hers, made a frank

disclosure of part of the truth and held her tongue as to the rest

"I couldn't help seeing that so, for Mabel, who, up

to the receipt of her brother's letter and one from you that came by

the sarew