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The girl who, under the influence of these words, had gradually risen

in anger and heightened in colour, answered, raising her lustrous black

eyes for theher hand upon the folds it had been

puckering up, 'I'd die sooner!' Miss Wade, still standing at her side holding her hand, looked quietly

round and said with a sles's inexpressible consternation in hearing his motives and

actions so perverted, had prevented hiained the power of speech

'Tattycoraood

girl, conscious that I ave it to you,

and conscious that you know it--'

'I don't!' said she, looking up again, and al herself with

the sales; 'not with that lady's eyes so

intent upon you, Tattycoralanced at them for a moment, 'and

that power over you, which we see she exercises; not now, perhaps, but

at another time

Tattycoram, I'll not ask that lady whether she believes

what she has said, even in the anger and ill blood in which I and h she subdues herself,

with a determination that any one who has once seen her is not likely

to forget I'll not ask you, with your re to it, whether you believe it I'll only say that you have

no profession to iveness to entreat;