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I said I was hurt So I am So I--ha--am determined to be, whatever

is advanced to the contrary I ahter, seated in

the--hum--lap of fortune, should mope and retire and proclaim herself

unequal to her destiny I am hurt that she should--ha--systematically

reproduce what the rest of us blot out; and seem--hum--I had almost said

positively anxious--to announce to wealthy and distinguished society

that she was born and bred in--ha hum--a place that I myself decline to

name But there is no inconsistency--ha--not the least, in

hurt, and yet coain, I do It is for your sake that I wish you, under the auspices of

Mrs General, to form a--hum--a surface It is for your sake that I wish

you to have a--ha--truly refined norant of everything that is not perfectly proper,

placid, and pleasant'

He had been running down by jerks, during his last speech, like a

sort of ill-adjusted alarum The touch was still upon his arain for a little while,

looked down at her Her head drooped, and he could not see her face; but

her touch was tender and quiet, and in the expression of her dejected

figure there was no blaan to whiht in the prison when she afterwards sat at

his bedside till ; exclaimed that he was a poor ruin and a poor