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"Well, I' to what's to come," she said, calmly and

ironically; "and indeed I listen with interest, for I should

like to understand what's the matter"

She spoke, and marveled at the confident, cal, and the choice of the words she used

"To enter into all the details of your feelings I have no right,

and besides, I regard that as useless and even har in one's soul, one often

ferrets out sos are an affair of your own conscience; but I am in duty

bound to you, to myself, and to God, to point out to you your

duties Our life has been joined, not by man, but by God That

union can only be severed by a cris its own chastisement"

"I don't understand a word And, oh dear! how sleepy I ah her hair,

feeling for the re hairpins

"Anna, for God's sake don't speak like that!" he said gently

"Perhaps I am mistaken, but believe me, what I say, I say as much

for myself as for you I am your husband, and I love you"

For an instant her face fell, and the leam in her eyes