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All night did Winterborne think over that unsatisfactory ending of a

pleasant ti the pleasant tiether, even should she be free to

choose hiinal difficulty, which he was too sensitive to recklessly ignore,

as some men would have done in his place

He was one of those silent, unobtrusive beings ant little from

others in the way of favor or condescension, and perhaps on that very

account scrutinize those others' behavior too closely He was not

versatile, but one in whom a hope or belief which had once had its

rise, ain exactly recurred, as in the

breasts of uine mortals He had once worshipped her, laid out

his life to suit her, wooed her, and lost her Though it ith

almost the same zest, it ith not quite the saain, and allowed himself to be so

charmed with her that day

Move another step towards her he would not He would even repulse

her--as a tribute to conscience It would be sheer sin to let her

prepare a pitfall for her happiness nother into a union with such as he Her poor father was now