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'Your one on purpose that I e ain seated herself She also had thought much of her own position since her return from Liverpool Why had Sir Felix not been there? Why had he not come since her return, and, at any rate, endeavoured to see her? Why had he made no attempt to write to her? Had it been her part to do so, she would have found a hundred ways of getting at hiarden of the square on Sunday ate open on each side But he had one to Liverpool--and had assured her that he had never intended to go Mele with her about theit The repayment he never mentioned,--a piece of honesty, indeed, which had showed no virtue on the part of Sir Felix But even if he had spent the h to coiven that fault,--could have forgiven even the ga and the drunkenness which had caused the failure of the enterprise on his side, if he had had the courage to coive was continued indifference,--or the cowardice which forbade him to show hih as a lover he had been better than Nidderdale But now, as far as she could see, he was ready to consent that the thing should be considered as over between them No doubt she could write to him She had more than once almost determined to do so But then she had reflected that if he really loved her he would come to her She was quite ready to run aith a lover, if her lover loved her; but she would not fling herself at athe garden gates open on the Sunday

But as she to do with herself? She also felt, she knew not why, that the present turht to an end by soirl could be more anxious to be married and taken away froain, what should she do? She had seen enough of life to be aware that suitors would co as that convulsion was staved off She did not suppose that her journey to Liverpool would frighten all the ht that it would put an end to Lord Nidderdale's courtship; and when her father had co her by the shoulders, to accept Lord Nidderdale when he should co her assurance that Lord Nidderdale would never be seen at that house any more On the Sunday he had not co-roo off her retreat with the evident intention of renewing his suit She was determined at any rate that she would speak up 'I don't knohat you should have to say to me, Lord Nidderdale'