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"But I don't wish to escape it"

"If you don't on your own account, cannot you wish to on mine and hers?

Nobody except our household knows that you have left ho down rave?"

"If it were not for an, moved by his words "But

how can I meet him there? How can any woman who is not a mere man's

creature join hiain rather than keep you out of my house"

"How do you know that, father?"

"We met him on our way here, and he told us so," said Mrs Melbury

"He had said soether"

"He declared to her when he came to our house that he would wait for

tiiveness," said her husband

"That was it, wasn't it, Lucy?"

"Yes That he would not intrude upon you, Grace, till you gave him

absolute permission," Mrs Melbury added

This antecedent considerateness in Fitzpiers was as welcoh she did not desire his presence, she was

sorry that by her retaliatory fiction she had given hi her Sheher parents, taking theathering up the two or three things that

belonged to her While she was doing this the tomen came who had

been called by Melbury, and at their heels poor Creedle