[The Dead Boxer by William Carleton]@TWC D-Link bookThe Dead Boxer CHAPTER V 17/22
John, come to meet me no more.
I will send that villain's innocent wife to your aunt Alley's, where you now live'.
I didn't expect to see you myself; but I got an opportunity, and besides she was too unwell to bring my message, which was to let you know what I now tell you." John, ere he replied, looked behind him at the Dead Boxer, and appeared as if struck with some sudden thought. "He is movin'," said he, "an' on this night I don't wish to meet him again; but--yes, Ellen, yes--God bless you for the words you've said; but how could you for one minute doubt me about the robbery ?" "I did not, John--I did not; and if I did, think of your own words at our meetin' in the Quarry; it was a small suspicion, though--no more. No, no; at heart I never doubted you." "Ellen," said John, "hear me.
You never will become my wife till my disgrace is wiped away.
I love you too well ever to see you blush for your husband.
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