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Roger Carbury's half-for Henrietta at home while Lady Carbury and Sir Felix went to dine at Caversharound It was to be carried out only in the event of Hetta's yielding to his prayer But he had in fact notWhen the evening caer was left alone In the ordinary course of his life he was used to solitude During the greater part of the year he would eat and drink and live without co peculiarly sad in this desertion But on the present occasion he could not prevent hi on the loneliness of his lot in life These cousins of his ere his guests cared nothing for hiht be useful to her; Sir Felix did not pretend to treat hih she was soft to hih pity rather than love On this day he had, in truth, asked her for nothing; but he had alive all that he wanted without asking And yet, when he told her of the greatness of his love, and of its endurance, she was si them to dinner went away down the road, he sat on the parapet of the bridge in front of the house listening to the sound of the horses' feet, and telling hi left for hiood to another, he had been good to Paul Montague, and now Paul Montague was robbing hihts were not logical, nor was his er was his inward condemnation of his friend He had never ue In speaking of him to Hetta he had alluded only to the affection which had existed between them But he felt that because of those services his friend Montague had owed it to hiht that if, unfortunately, this had happened unawares, Montague should have retired as soon as he learned the truth He could not bring hih Hetta had assured him that his friend had never spoken to her of love He was sore all over, and it was Paul Montague who made him sore Had there been no such ht now have been mistress of the house He sat there till the servant came to tell him that his dinner was on the table Then he crept in and ate,--so that the ht not see his sorrow; and, after dinner, he sat with a book in his hand see to read But he read not a word, for his ether on his cousin Hetta 'What a poor creature a man is,' he said to hiet over a feeling like this'