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It showed her correct estimate of her brother's character, that she

never for a second accused him of connivance in the deceit practised

upon his relations and neighbors He would not have scrupled to wed

a , knowing and acknowledging her to be such Nothing--not

love, tenfold more ardent and irrational than that he felt for his

siren wife--could have wrought upon hieley, one who had been before married, and was

ashamed, for any cause whatever, to avow this The blemish left by

the acrid breath of common scandal upon a woman's fame was to hi ned one may not have erred from the straitest road of

virtue and discretion, but she had been "talked about," and was no

consort for his disallowed, and but one shade more respectable than liasons

that did not pretend to the sanctity of wedlock What would he say

when the contents of this dingy pocket-book were spread before hiht his sister to do this?

COULD she? He had not earned coentleness and forbearance He had handled the