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'You are beautiful as ever you were,' he said

'Psha! Do not tellfor my beauty unless it can bind me to your love Sit down there and tell o his hand, and seated herself opposite to the chair which she gave hi in your letter,--except that it was to be--off Why is it to be--off? Do you not love me?' Then she threw herself upon her knees, and leaned upon his, and looked up in his face 'Paul,' she said, 'I have come across the Atlantic on purpose to see you,--after so h you should leave ive me one kiss' Of course he kissed her, not once, but with a long, warm embrace How could it have been otherwise? With all his heart he wished that she would have remained away, but while she knelt there at his feet what could he do but e herself on a footstool at his feet

She certainly did not look like a woht ill-treat or scorn with i her caresses upon hiht too probably turn and rend hi of her teh he had also known the truth and warmth of her love He had travelled with her froood to him in illness, in distress of mind and in poverty,--for he had been almost penniless in New York When they landed at Liverpool they were engaged as iven her the whole history of his life This was before his second journey to America, when Hamilton K Fisker was unknown to hi of her own life,--but that she was a , and that she was travelling to Paris on business When he left her at the London railway station, from which she started for Dover, he was full of all a lover's ardour He had offered to go with her, but that she had declined But when he reer of his engagement, and remeaged, he became embarrassed What were her means he did not know He did know that she was some years older than himself, and that she had spoken hardly a word to him of her own family She had indeed said that her husband had been one of the greatest miscreants ever created, and had spoken of her release fro she had known before she had ht of all this after she had left him,--only when he reflected how bald was the story which he er Carbury,--that he became dismayed Such had been the woreat her power of adaptation, that he had passed weeks in her daily co inti had been