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"And you'd better write also to the gentleere practice in the case,

wished to commit Melbury to it irretrievably; to effect which he knew

that nothing would be so potent as awakening the passion of Grace for

Winterborne, so that her father ht not have the heart to withdraw

froitimate when he discovered that

there were difficulties in the way

The nervous, impatient Melbury wasthe-delayed

reparative scheme in train had become a passion with hihter a passage hinting that she

ought to begin to encourage Winterborne, lest she should lose hiether; and he wrote to Giles that the path was virtually open for

him at last Life was short, he declared; there were slips betwixt the

cup and the lip; her interest in hiht be ready when the good ti them