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"I have refused the opportunity I love this place too well to depart"

"You HAVE?" she said, regarding him ild uncertainty

"Why do you ruin yourself in that way? Great Heaven, what have I done!"

"Nothing Besides, you are going away"

"Oh yes; but only to Middleton Abbey for a th there--particularly strength of mind--I require it

And when I come back I shall be a neo your ith you, and we'll be friends--she

and I Oh, how this shutting up of one's self does lead to indulgence

in idle sentiive your attendance toaway--if your

re does not injure your prospects at all"

As soon as he had left the room the , the playful sadness hich she had

conversed with him, equally departed from her She became as heavy as

lead--just as she had been before he arrived Her whole being see, and the sense of it

made her lips treain