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Uncle Max

CHAPTER XXVII
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He told me more than once that he would rather have me as a brother-in-law than any other man.
'I thought I had prepared her sufficiently, but it seems that she was very much, startled by my proposal.

Her trouble had so engrossed her that she had been perfectly blind to my meaning.

It was all in vain, Ursula, for she did not love me,--at least not in the right way.

She told me so with tears, accusing herself of unkindness.

She liked, most certainly she liked me, but perhaps she knew me too well.
'She was so unhappy at the thought of giving me pain, so sweet and gentle in her efforts to console me and heal the wound she had inflicted, that I could not lose hope.


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