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I re of you,

and all the poetry and loftiness of his feeling for you, and I

know that the longer he has lived with you the loftier you have

been in his eyes You knoe have so in at every word: 'Dolly's a marvelous woman' You have

always been a divinity for him, and you are that still, and this

has not been an infidelity of the heart"

"But if it is repeated?"

"It cannot be, as I understand it"

"Yes, but could you forgive it?"

"I don't know, I can't judge Yes, I can," said Anna,

thinking a hing it in her inner balance, she added: "Yes, I can, I can,

I can Yes, I could forgive it I could not be the sah it had never

been, never been at all"

"Oh, of course," Dolly interposed quickly, as though saying what

she had iveness If one forgives, it o; I'll take you to your roo

up, and on the way she elad I as better, ever so much better"