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The thought which caused Bennington de Lane so suddenly look grave was

suggested by the sentence in his mother's letter For the first ti, were possibly

destined to come into intimate relations with himself Old Bill Lawton

was Mary's father; while Mrs Laas Mary's reat rush of love into his heart drove this feeling

fro, provided she loved him and he loved her?

Generous senti else

He even experienced dimly in the depths of his consciousness, a faint

pale joy that in thus accepting as disagreeable to his finer

sensibilities, he was proving more truly to his own self the

boundlessness of his love For the ainst anything calculating in his passion And

then slowly, one by one, the objections stole back, like a flock of

noisoht by a suddenplaces The very unassu method of

their recurrence lent theton

knew it they had established a case, and he found hily problee and democratic

reader to realize fully the terrible proportions of this problem We

whose lives assuible

objections to the desires of our hearts do not count for h attrition of reality to turn

back our calm, complacent acquisition of that which we see to be for

our best interest in the e

Claims of society mean not mucha class of enius, are able to render absolute wealth itself an evanescent

quality When one of us loves, he questions the worth of the object of

his passion That established, nothing else is of great irand and noble quality in this, but it misses much About

the other state of affairs--wherein the woman's appurtenances of all

kinds, as well as the wonificant--is a delicate and