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Forgotten her voice! Indeed, he had not forgotten her voice, as his

bitterness showed But though in the heat of the moment he had

reproached her keenly, his second ard her renunciation of such as he as her glory and her

privilege, his own fidelity notwithstanding He could have declared

with a conteet the ocean;

If I forget

The heart whence flows ht motion,

May I sink meanlier than the worst

Abandoned, outcast, crushed, accurst,

If I forget

"Though you forget,

No word of et,

You filled ift you gave;

You still are queen, I still aet"

She had tears in her eyes at the thought that she could not reht to have remembered; that not herself but the pressure

of events had dissipated the dreams of their early youth Grace was

thus unexpectedly worsted in her encounter with her old friend She

had opened the ith a faint sense of triumph, but he had turned

it into sadness; she did not quite comprehend the reason why In truth