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The Belton Estate

CHAPTER V
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I asked him directly I had made up my own mind, and he told me that I might go to you." "You have asked papa?
Oh dear, oh dear, what am I to do ?" "Am I so odious to you then ?" As he said this he got up from his seat and stood before her.

He was a tall, well-built, handsome man, and he could assume a look and mien that were almost noble when he was moved as he was moved now.
"Odious! Do you not know that I have loved you as my cousin--that I have already learned to trust you as though you were really my brother?
But this breaks it all." "You cannot love me then as my wife ?" "No." She pronounced the monosyllable alone, and then he walked away from her as though that one little word settled the question for him, now and for ever.

He walked away from her, perhaps a distance of two hundred yards, as though the interview was over, and he were leaving her.

She, as she saw him go, wished that he would return that she might say some word of comfort to him.

Not that she could have said the only word that would have comforted him.


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