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Can You Forgive Her?

CHAPTER VI
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It is he who has driven you to sacrifice yourself on this altar.

If we can, both of us, manage to lay aside all delicacy and pretence, and dare to speak the truth, we shall acknowledge that it is so.

Had Mr Grey come to you while things were smooth between you and George, would you have thought it possible that he could be George's rival in your estimation?
It is Hyperion to Satyr." "And which is the Satyr ?" "I'll leave your heart to tell you.

You know what is the darling wish of my heart.

But, Alice, if I thought that Mr Grey was to you Hyperion,--if I thought that you could marry him with that sort of worshipping, idolatrous love which makes a girl proud as well as happy in her marriage, I wouldn't raise a little finger to prevent it." To this Alice made no answer, and then Kate allowed the matter to drop.


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