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La Vende

CHAPTER VIII
12/22

I trust your feelings are not cold also." "I should have hoped that many years of very intimate acquaintance between us, of friendship commenced in childhood, and now cemented by common sympathies and common dangers, would have made you aware that my feelings are not cold towards you." "Oh no! not cold in the ordinary sense.

You wish me well, I doubt not, and your kind heart would grieve, if you heard that I had fallen beneath the swords of the republicans; but you would do the same for Cathelineau or M.de Bonchamps.

If I cannot wake a warmer interest in your heart than that, I should prefer that you should forget me altogether." Agatha began to fear that at this rate the interview would have no end.
If Adolphe remained with his arm on the marble slab, and his head on one side, making sentimental speeches, till she should give him encouragement to fall at her feet, it certainly would not be ended by bed-time.

She, therefore, summoned all her courage, and said, "When you asked me to meet you here, your purpose was not to reproach me with coldness--was it Adolphe?
Perhaps it will be better for both of us that this interview should terminate now.

We shall part friends, dear friends; and I will rejoice at your triumphs, when you are victorious; and will lament at your reverses, should you be unlucky.


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