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in both these For the present - I could not tell how long -

now, soon, as soon as I should leave Washington again, we must

be separated I wished I could see Thorold that very evening!

In Washington - maybe not far off - and days so few - and I

could not see hiain and put , lected

any duty, that this trouble had come upon me? I tried to

think I could not find that I had to blao to West Point last summer I

held none but friendly relations with Mr Thorold there, so

far as I kneas utterly taken by surprise, when at Miss

Cardigan's that night I found that ere more than friends

Could I hide the fact then? Perhaps it would have been right

to do it, if I had knohat I was about; but I did not know

Mr Thorold was going to the war; I had but a surprised

minute; it was simply impossible to hide from him all which

that minute revealed Noas coiven My heart ht be broken, but

could never be taken back Truth ed to anybody but my father and

mother I settled that point It was needless ever to look at

it again