[Barnaby Rudge by Charles Dickens]@TWC D-Link bookBarnaby Rudge CHAPTER 79 9/17
What have I left to say? You have, of late, been much together.
It is better and more fitting that the circumstances attendant on the past, which wrought your separation, and sowed between you suspicion and distrust, should not be entered on by me.' 'Much, much better,' whispered Emma. 'I avow my share in them,' said Mr Haredale, 'though I held it, at the time, in detestation.
Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end.
All good ends can be worked out by good means. Those that cannot, are bad; and may be counted so at once, and left alone.' He looked from her to Edward, and said in a gentler tone: 'In goods and fortune you are now nearly equal.
I have been her faithful steward, and to that remnant of a richer property which my brother left her, I desire to add, in token of my love, a poor pittance, scarcely worth the mention, for which I have no longer any need.
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