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'Alas!lady!' said Theresa, 'why should all this be? I

have known you from your infancy, and it may well be supposed I love

you, as if you was my own, and wish as much to see you happy M

Valancourt, to be sure, I have not known so long, but then I have reason

to love hih he was my own son I knoell you love one

another, or why all this weeping and wailing?' Earding the signal, continued, 'And

how much you are alike in your tempers and ways, and, that, if you were

married, you would be the happiest couple in the whole province--then

what is there to prevent youraway their happiness, and then cry and la, and as if there wasat peace Learning, to be sure,

is a fine thing, but, if it teaches folks no better than that, why I had

rather be without it; if it would teach the to it, then it would be learning and wisdoe to talk, but

Eh she felt

the justness of some of her remarks, did not choose to explain the

circumstances, that had determined her conduct towards Valancourt She,