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"I ought not to allow this sacrifice!" she faltered gratefully

"Because I have the vapors, I have no right to keep you within reach

of the infection It is sha!" he contradicted "If you would know the

truth, I was,this 'crush' But for your

indisposition, I should hail with unation to for It is

far s to pass this, our last

evening together, as we have spent so many others, in quiet talk at

this fireside I had not supposed it possible that I could ever feel

so ton caravansary especially--as

I have within the last three weeks Do you know, or have you not

burdened your memory with such unimportant memoranda as the fact,

that I must set my face Philadelphia-ward to-morrow?"

"I had not dreamed that the time was so near at hand--it see of our arrival--until I happened,

last night, after you left us, to take up Mrs Rogers'

invitation-card for this evening THEN, I recollected!"

Her listless resignation had in it so piteous, and the lever

of compassion impelled him to further efforts of cheer