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It proved a restless day, and a sufficiently unpleasant one, for Mr

Ha hi to persuade hiht, nor how his own career

ended; iht

He had thus successfully built up a wall between the present and that

past which long haunted his lonely moments, and had finally decided

that it was herirl,

this hom he had plucked from the jaws of death, had overturned

this carefully constructed barrier as if it had been originally built

of ain to see himself, loathe

hi had been changed by her sudden entrance into his life,

everything except those unfortunate conditions which still bound hih his cool, gray

eyes, but out of her darker ones, and the prospect appeared gloo in reawakened

hidden within the secret recesses of his

brain, yet so little ca survey that the result

left him no plan for the future He had wandered too far away froroeeds, and

could not now be retraced One thing he grasped clearly,--the girl

should be given her chance; nothing in his life ain soil