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"Well, it's very sad Poor old Cardo returned hoone from Abersethin made his way up here Did you see

hiasp "Yes!"

"Then no doubt you kno she repulsed him, and taunted him with

wilful desertion of her--desertion, indeed! that honest Cardo, whose

very soul was bound up in her! Had I not heard it from his own lips, I

could never have believed that Valmai would have used the words 'base

and dishonourable' to Cardo Wynne He is broken-hearted, and really,

if she perseveres in this unwarranted indignation, I think it will kill

him; and that is why I wanted to see her, for I still believe there

must be some mistake"

"Mistake! yes, yes, a horrible mistake She never saw him at all It

was I who spoke those cruel words to hi?"

"Yes, yes, youher hands, "it is I

who have broken my sister's heart--the sister whom I would die to save

a h her limbs trembled

with excitement "It is my turn now to tell my story, and when I have

finished you will despise ood reason"