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THE BURDEN UPON NESTA.
Could there be confidences on the subject of Mrs.Marsett with Captain Dartrey ?--Nesta timidly questioned her heart: she knocked at an iron door shut upon a thing alive.

The very asking froze her, almost to stopping her throbs of pity for the woman.

With Captain Dartrey, if with any one; but with no one.

Not with her mother even.