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A Life’s Morning

CHAPTER VIII
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Try only to feel for me.' 'There is only one way in which I can answer you,' she said; 'I owe it to you to hide nothing.

I feel deeply the sincerity of all you have said, and be sure, Mr.Dagworthy, that I will never think of you unjustly or unkindly.

But I can promise nothing more; I have already given my love.' Her voice faltered before the last word, the word she would never lightly utter.

But it must be spoken now; no paraphrase would confirm her earnestness sufficiently.
Still keeping her eyes on the ground, she knew that he had started.
'You have promised to marry some one ?' he asked, as if it were necessary to have the fact affirmed in the plainest words before he could accept it.
She hoped that silence might be her answer.
'Have you?
Do you mean that ?' 'I have.' She saw that he was turning away from her, and with an effort she looked at him.

She wished she had not; his anguish expressed itself like an evil passion; his teeth were set with a cruel savageness.


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