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Before she are of it, she had begun to compare her affianced with Haldane, and she found that the one was like a goblet of sweet, rich wine, that was already nearly exhausted and cloying to her taste; the other was like a , prodigally abundant, inspiring yet slaking thirst

But she soon sahither such coer and her duty She had plighted her faith to another, and he had given her no good reason to break that faith Laura had a conscience, and she as resolutely set to work to shut out Haldane froe, and froan and is often at sword's-point with both will and conscience, and frequently, in spite of all that she could do, it would array Haldane on the one side and Beaumont on the other, and so it would eventually come to be, the man who loved her, versus the connoisseur who ad passion for hi