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After a long pause, turning towards her and taking her hand,

he said, in a softened voice, 'Eive up an heart, that loves you like h it has erred--widely erred, is not irretrievable

from error, as, you well know, it never can be retrievable from love?'

Emily made no reply, but with her tears 'Can you,' continued he, 'can

you forget all our forht, that I ht wish to conceal from you--when I had no

taste--no pleasures, in which you did not participate?'

'O do not lead me to the remembrance of those days,' said Eet the present; I do not mean to reproach you;

if I did, I should be spared these tears; but ill you render your

present sufferingsthem with your

forht, perhaps, again be ed;--but I fear, indeed,

I see, that you can no longer love ether, would plead for me, and you could not look

back upon them unmoved Yet, why should I torture er here? Am I not ruined--would it not be

madness to involve you in my misfortunes, even if your heart was still

o,' added he,

in a solemn voice, 'let me repeat, that, whatever may be my

destiny--whatever I may be doomed to suffer, I , E to leave

you--to leave you, forever!' As he spoke the last words, his voice