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The Crown of Life

CHAPTER VII
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You think me unsympathetic--oh, I'm not!" Again she let her fingers rest on his arm.

"I feel so much with you that I daren't offer imaginary hopes.

She belongs to such a different world, try, try to forget her." "Of course I know she cares and thinks nothing about me now.

But if I made my way----" "She will marry very early, and someone----" With an upward movement of her hand the speaker, was sufficiently explicit.

Otway, he knew not why, tried to laugh, and frightened himself with the sound.
"She is not the only girl, good and beautiful," Mrs.Hannaford continued, pleading with him.
"For me she is," he replied, in a hard voice.


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