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He felt alirl loved that other younger man That she had never owned to such love he was quite sure The man himself and Henrietta also had both assured him on this point, and he was a man easily satisfied by words and prone to believe But he knew that Paul Montague was attached to her, and that it was Paul's intention to cling to his love Sorrowfully looking forward through the vista of future years, he thought he saw that Henrietta would become Paul's wife Were it so, what should he do? Annihilate himself as far as all personal happiness in the world was concerned, and look solely to their happiness, their prosperity, and their joys? Be as it were a beneficent old fairy to theony of his own disappointment should never depart from him? Should he do this and be blessed by theue knohat deep resentratitude could produce? When had a father been kinder to a son, or a brother to a brother, than he had been to Paul? His hohis bliss and rob him of all that he had in the world? He was conscious all the while that there was a souirl knew nothing of his friend's love,--that the girl, though Paul had never coht probably have been as obdurate as she was now to his entreaties He knew all this because his mind was clear But yet the injustice,--at any rate, the ive it and to reward it would be weak, woer Carbury did not quite believe in the forgiveness of injuries If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil! If you give your cloak to hi will it be, before your shirt and trousers will go also? Roger Carbury, returned that afternoon to Suffolk, and as he thought of it all throughout the journey, he resolved that he would never forgive Paul Montague if Paul Montague should become his cousin's husband