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"Wronged his father?" asked Mrs Melbury

"Yes, grievously wronged hiht," she urged "Come indoors"

"No, no, the air cools " He was silent

a while; then he told her, as nearly as Marty could gather, that his

first wife, his daughter Grace's mother, was first the sweetheart of

Winterborne's father, who loved her tenderly, till he, the speaker, won

her away from him by a trick, because he wanted to marry her himself

He sadly went on to say that the other h he married Winterborne's mother, it was but a

half-hearted business with him Melbury added that he was afterwards

very miserable at what he had done; but that as tirew up, and seemed to be attached to each other, he

deter his

daughter ive her the best

education he could afford, so as to ift as valuable a one as

it lay in his power to bestow "I still mean to do it," said Melbury

"Then do," said she