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'I think it is i should be impossible All the people that one hears of that are really true to their loves never find anything impossible Does he love me, Miss Carbury? It all depends on that That's what I want to know' She paused, but Hetta could not answer the question 'You must know about your brother Don't you knohether he does love ht to tellto say?'

'Miss Melan poor Hetta very slowly

'Call me Marie You said you would love me, did you not? I don't even knohat your name is'

'My na But it's very pretty I have no brother, no sister And I'll tell you, though you ain;--I have no real h papa chooses that it should be thought so' All this she whispered, with rapid words, almost into Hetta's ear 'And papa is so cruel to me! He beats me sometimes' The new friend, round whom Marie still had her arm, shuddered as she heard this 'But I never will yield a bit for that When he boxes and thunash my teeth at him Can you wonder that I want to have a friend? Can you be surprised that I should be always thinking of my lover? But,--if he doesn't love me, what am I to do then?'

'I don't knohat I airl was good or bad, to be sought or to be avoided, there was so edy in her position that Hetta's heart was melted with sympathy

'I wonder whether you love anybody, and whether he loves you,' said Marie Hetta certainly had not come there to talk of her own affairs, and made no reply to this 'I suppose you won't tellfor your own coain, you think?'

'I am sure he will not'

'I wonder what he fears I should fear nothing,--nothing Why should not alk out of the house, and be ht to stop me Papa could only turn me out of his house I will venture if he will'

It see to such a proposition auilt of which Mr Melmotte had dared to suppose that she could be capable 'I cannot listen to it Indeed I cannot listen to it My brother is sure that he cannot--cannot--'