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"How can you doubt it!"

"My dear, this is a delicate subject for me to enter on"

"And a shah! you

are an angel, by comparison with that man--how debased I ood opinion! Askyou like;

have no mercy on me Oh," she cried, with reckless contempt for

herself, "why don't you beat h acquainted with the natures of women to pass

over that passionate outbreak, instead of fanning the fla and remonstrance

"Your father will not listen to the expression of feeling," he

continued; "but it is possible to rouse his sense of justice by the

expression of facts Help me to speak to him more plainly of Lord Harry

than you could speak in your letters I want to knohat has happened,

fro lord

together again, to the time when you left him in Ireland after my

brother's death If I seem to expect toowith a true regard for your interests"

In those words, he enerous appeal to her She proved herself

to be worthy of it

Stated briefly, the retrospect began with the mysterious anonymous

letters which had been addressed to Sir Giles