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me Sir Nicholas, they are more bother than they are worth I said it

always, even when I was younger--They leave their trail of trouble where

ever they go"

How I agreed with him!

So here was a fresh barrier arisen between Alathea and myself!--a fresh

barrier which I cannot explain away The only co is that i--or she would not put up with any of these things for a

iven her demission at the same time as she

wrote

If et her

consent to ain--and

allwhich was

beginning to have an effect upon me evaporated!--I knew that once more I

was as utterly under the spell of her attraction, as the moment when my

passionate lips touched her soft reluctant ones--Ah! that thought! that

e in--but now, all resistance

broken on every side,--I spent the rest of the day dreaht time I was as mad as a hatter, and more

full of cruel unrest than ever--