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"Grandfather, this living for the future is the curse of the English land-owners They enjoy not the present, for they are busy taking care of the years they will never see Their sons are in their way; it is their grandsons and their great-grandsons that interest thee? He may be Earl Hyde for twenty years-- and I hope he will For twenty years Cornelia and I can be happy here in A can happen in twenty years Of one thing I am sure--I will marry Cornelia Moran, even if I run aith her to the ends of the earth"

"'Run aith her' To be sure! That is in the blood;" and the old man looked sternly back to the days when Hyde's father ran aith his own little daughter

With so about? What art thou thinking of? Many good hty Doctor John ran aith his wife Did not Ava Willing leave her father's house and her friends and her faith for hi for her e?-- and I bla More, too, if thou ht, when thou and I sat by the Collect in theWhat did thou say to otten--"

"Forgotten! Well, then, et; but they may be thankful that God has so et The words thou said that night have been singing in my heart for fifty years; and yet, if thou must be told, some of those words were about RUNNING AWAY WITH THEE;-- for, at the first, my father liked thee not"

"Lysbet! My sweet Lysbet! I have not forgotten For thy dear sake I will stand by Joris, though in doing so I am sure I shall make some unfriends"

"Good, ht"

"Well, then," said Hyde, "if randmother stand by me, and you also, sir; and also Madame Jacobus--"

"Madame Jacobus!" cried Lysbet

"Yes, indeed!" answered Hyde "'Tis to her understanding and kindness I owe ave me, also, one look which I cannot pretend to misunderstand--a look of clear sympathy--a look that promised help"

"She is a clever woood will it is not to be throay"