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The Mystery of Metropolisville

CHAPTER XXVII
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For the poor woman had come to depend on Isa not only in weighty matters, such as dresses and bonnets, but also in all the other affairs of life.

And it seemed to her a grievous wrong that Isabel, who had saved her from so many troubles, should not have kept Katy from drowning and Albert from prison.
The chief trouble in the mind of Albert was not the probability of imprisonment, nor the overthrow of his educational schemes--though all of these were cups of bitterness.

But the first thought with him was to ask what would be the effect of his arrest on Miss Minorkey.

He had felt some disappointment in not finding Helen the ideal woman he had pictured her, but, as I said a while ago, love does not die at the first disappointment.

If it finds little to live on in the one who is loved, it will yet find enough in the memories, the hopes, and the ideals that dwell within the lover.


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