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'Then if I er, with all his prejudice expressed strongly in his voice, 'I trust I may not marry a lady of her country She does not think that she is to marry you, and yet she comes down here and stays with you Paul, I don't believe it I believe you, but I don't believe her She is here with you in order that sheYou are foolish and weak Believing as I do that e with her would be destruction, I should tell her entle 'That's what I should do You o in now, I suppose, and eat your dinner'

'I o back hoer Then he bethought himself that his welcohted to see you,' he added, o into the hotel, and did eat his dinner In thethe strand In all that he had said to Montague he had spoken the truth, or that which appeared to him to be the truth He had not been influenced for a moment by any reference to his own affairs And yet he feared, he ale A in close intercourse with the woman after he had told her that he would not keep his proirl that he loved As he had listened to John Crules, he had told himself that he and John Crumb were alike With an honest, true, heartfelt desire they both panted for the companionship of a fellow-creature whom each had chosen And each was to be thwarted by the ood looks! Crus, would probably be successful at last But what chance was there of success for him? Ruby, as soon as want or hardship told upon her, would return to the strong arm that could be trusted to provide her with plenty and comparative ease But Hetta Carbury, if once her heart had passed from her own doe her love It was possible, no doubt,--nay, how probable,--that her heart was still vacillating Roger thought that he knew that at any rate she had not as yet declared her love If she were now to know,--if she could now learn,--of what nature was the love of this otheralone with a lady who since he had promised to marry,-- if she could be made to understand this whole story of Mrs Hurtle, would not that open her eyes? Would she not then see where she could trust her happiness, and where, by so trusting it, she would certainly be shipwrecked!