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After Dark

PROLOGUE TO THE SECOND STORY
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Do you think I am saying anything libelous against your excellent father's character when I assert that if he saw the letter he would certainly insist on your marriage being put off, at the very least ?" "Feeling as my father does about my marriage, he would insist on its being dropped altogether, if he saw this letter," says Mr.Frank, with a groan.

"But even that is not the worst of it.

The generous, noble girl herself says that if the letter appears in the paper, with all the unanswerable comments this scoundrel would be sure to add to it, she would rather die than hold me to my engagement, even if my father would let me keep it." As he said this his eyes began to water.

He was a weak young fellow, and ridiculously fond of her.

I brought him back to business with another rap of the paper-knife.
"Hold up, Mr.Frank," says I."I have a question or two more.


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