You are now morbidly sensitive to the misery that surrounds us, but you will feel it less keenly as it grows more familiar." "You do not understand me, Kendric," said he, starting from his chair, and pacing restlessly up and down the room.

"I cannot deceive you any longer.

In begging you to leave me, it is your own happiness I am thinking of.

Please go as soon as possible," he pleaded, laying his hand gently upon my shoulder.

"Take her with you, and let me stay." My heart seemed suddenly to have stopped beating.
"My God, Rayel!" I exclaimed.