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away and live in dread of one event.’
‘What do you mean?’
‘Your sister’s marriage.’
‘You are very wrong. She can never be more lost to you
than she is now.’
‘But she will be gained by some one else. And if that some
one should be the very he whom, of all others, I could least
bear—but I will not stay to rob myself of all your compas-
sionate goodwill, by shewing that where I have most injured
I can least forgive. Good bye,—God bless you!’
And with these words, he almost ran out of the room.