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"Well, darling, you agree?" said Wildeve

"If it could be London, or even Buduidly "Well, I will think It is too great a thing for me to decide offhand I wish I hated the heath less--or loved you o waro anywhere with me"

"And you loved Thomasin"

"Yes, perhaps that here the reason lay," he returned, with almost a sneer "I don't hate her now"

"Exactly The only thing is that you can no longer get her"

"Coree to go with o by e it seems that you could have married her or me indifferently, and only have come to me because I am--cheapest! Yes, yes--it is true There was a tiainst a man of that sort, and been quite wild; but it is all past now"

"Will you go, dearest? Come secretly with -hole of England for ever? Say Yes"

"I want to get away from here at almost any cost," she said eariness, "but I don't like to go with you Give me more tiive you one er, so that I s Fancy Thoet it"

"Never mind that Say Monday week I will be here precisely at this time"

"Let it be at Rainbarrow," said she "This is too near ho out"

"Thank you, dear On Monday week at this tiood-bye"

"Good-bye No, no, you h till I have made up my mind"

Eustacia watched his shadowy form till it had disappeared She placed her hand to her forehead and breathed heavily; and then her rich, romantic lips parted under that ho betrayed even to herself the possible evanescence of her passion for hiht have overestimated Wildeve, for to perceive his reat folly heretofore And the discovery that she was the owner of a disposition so purely that of the dog in thein it which at first made her ashamed