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there than Alathea!

Pierre had here interfered, and catching hold of Suzette's arled with shame and wrath That the person I respect most in the

world should have been exposed to such a scene--! Burton too was

horrified--

I had theto

hear of all this through servants was sufficiently disgusting, without

the events the

What must Alathea think of me! And I cannot even allude to the subject

Hoonderful her dignity has been that she has allowed no extra

contempt to come into her manner

How shall I have the pluck to ask her to marry me? I mean to do so

to- to write the events of these last days doithout any

co-roo

at her desk in the little salon I looked in and asked her if she would

coot to my chair She entered obediently

with the block in her hand, ready to begin work