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THE SINS OF OTHERS.
ABOUT A WEEK had passed, and the position had begun to grow more complicated.
I may mention in passing that I suffered a great deal during that unhappy week, as I scarcely left the side of my affianced friend, in the capacity of his most intimate confidant.

What weighed upon him most was the feeling of shame, though we saw no one all that week, and sat indoors alone.

But he was even ashamed before me, and so much so that the more he confided to me the more vexed he was with me for it.

He was so morbidly apprehensive that he expected that every one knew about it already, the whole town, and was afraid to show himself, not only at the club, but even in his circle of friends.