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"If you are indifferent to such an invidious position as your new idea

would place us in, I am not, I do not wish my friends to think that I ae of your being e then?"

"Of course"

She clasped her hands together suddenly, as if she could control herself

no longer, and I thought of what she had said to Burton about feeling

that she could not fight any more I would not allowin every nerve ofto take

her into ,

but I would not do this I cannot let her master me, or we shall never

have any peace I will not tell her that I love her until her pride is

broken, and I have made her love me and come to me voluntarily

She was silent

"I have infored I saw

her yesterday"

She started perceptibly

"She has told you ht I had made it plain to you

that I am not interested about the subject, we need not ain, you have only to talk to old Robert Nelson, my lawyer, when he