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"It is perhaps natural that you should find it hard to forgive ht at least write and put me out of suspense I think

you would do so if you kne reat soul

cannot intend to torture s is

almost more than I can bear, and I am nearly heartbroken It is my

dark hour, dearest, and if you had to say you could never forgive

me, I think I could easier reconcile an to love you; I shall always love you even

if I have to lose you, and I shall never, never be sorry for

anything that has occurred

"Not receiving any new letters fro back on the

old ones, and there is a letter of only two o in which

you speak of just such a case as mine May I quote what you say?

"'Yet even if she were not so (ie worthy of your love and

friendship), even if there were, as you say, a fault in her, who

ae her harshly?I reject the monstrous

theory that while a man may redeem the past a woman never can

And if she has sinned as I have sinned, and suffered as I have