"No; I do not know it. What then might have had a possible issue is now done with--or do I err?"
Her mouth trembled piteously, but no tears came as she lowered her head.
"Then listen to me. You may think me a poor sort of a fellow even to wish you to marry me when you assure me that you love another. That means that you do not love me as a husband should be loved, but it does not prove that you never could love me so."
"No, you may think so now, but let me reason you into seeing the falsity of your thought, --for I do not wish to force or impel you to do a thing repugnant to your reason as well as to your feelings. To begin with, you do not dislike me?"
His face was painful in its eagerness.
"I have always loved you as a dear brother."
"Some people would consider that worse than hostility; I do not. Another question: Is there anything about my life or personality to which you object, or of which your are ashamed?"
"You know how proud we all are of you in your bearing in every relation of life."
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houses, don’t you know, like trays. Come on; let’s
a coward, began to see that it would not be at all nice
and instead of the damp, green, rocky surface, there shone
Morison had been urging his suit once more that evening,
Jane was singing to her doll, rocking it to and fro in
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‘I’M game for anything, of course,’ said Robert;
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were things on the floor that looked like newts, and in
gangway above which lowered a green and rotting wooden
vast door of the palace itself, where it stood glittering