13/19 You cannot be hard--you cannot send me away; you will not, for I love you!" Her hands clung more closely to him. Overlook my father's crime and pardon me, for Heaven's dear sake!" "My dearest Madaline, if you would but understand! I have nothing to pardon. You are sweetest, dearest, loveliest, best. You are one of the purest and noblest of women. I have nothing to pardon; it is only that I cannot take disgrace into my family. |