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"I have done my best to keep her"

"I know you have," he answered, quickly; "and now you ive me authority over her--the authority of a husband I aht She knows that I love her, and I think she honors and respects me--perhaps she an now to treht--we all understood--that you--"

"I knohat you mean," he irritably exclai me? I am not disloyal to Adele Can't you see that ard for Viola is no treason to the dead? Adele will understand how vital, how necessary, Viola is to me, for does she not know that I could not even communicate with her if Viola went away? I do not love Viola as a boy loves, but as a man who understands himself and her--as one who understands her duties It is a different love, but it is just as true, and it is high and holy Without her I would have gone mad She saved el to the earth-bound millions"

Flattered as well as awed by this disclosure of her daughter's power, the e with him would safe-harbor Viola, would establish her in life, and would also carry forward the hich she, too, considered of greater importance than any other concern of her life

"I don't know her mind, Anthony," she said, after a silence "She worries and puzzles me lately by her opposition to all our plans; but I don't think she is attached to any of the young s And if she consents--"

"When she co confidence Deep in the irl is restless and uneasy--I knohy she seeks afar off; it is because she thinks me indissolubly bound to Adele When she finds that I love her, that I want her for ue rebellions will cease Her longings will close round me--"

When the door opened and Viola stepped into the roo with life, the very force of his desire rendered Clarke outwardly hu of desolate weakness After thein a low voice with deep-dropping cadences