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Ruth

CHAPTER VIII
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By his earnest desire, and in order to avoid seeing you again, we are on the point of leaving this place; but before I go, I wish to exhort you to repentance, and to remind you that you will not have your own guilt alone upon your head, but that of any young man whom you may succeed in entrapping into vice.

I shall pray that you may turn to an honest life, and I strongly recommend you, if indeed you are not 'dead in trespasses and sins,' to enter some penitentiary.

In accordance with my son's wishes, I forward you in this envelope a bank-note of fifty pounds.
MARGARET BELLINGHAM.
Was this the end of all?
Had he, indeed, gone?
She started up, and asked this last question of the servant, who, half guessing at the purport of the note, had lingered about the room, curious to see the effect produced.
"Iss, indeed, miss; the carriage drove from the door as I came upstairs.

You'll see it now on the Yspytty road, if you'll please to come to the window of No.

24." Ruth started up, and followed the chambermaid.


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