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feel that it is; that is why I wished to understand you in this that we

have begun At ti your father's

letter, I am as uneasy and fearful as a child at what he said If one

of us were to die before the for that is to

release you have been done--if we should drop out of the world and

never have made the most of this little, short, but real opportunity, I

should think to , 'Would to iven her one poor little kiss when I

had the chance to give it! But I never did, although she had promised

to be mine some day; and now I never can' That's what I should think"

She had begun by watching the words froe were visible; but as he went on she

dropped her glance "Yes," she said, "I have thought that, too And,

because I have thought it, I by noof the

proprieties, to be reserved and cold to you who loved o,

or to hurt your heart as I used to do at that thoughtless tiht I to allow you?--oh, it is too

quick--surely!" Her eyes filled with tears of bewildered, alarmed

emotion