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Kate Danton, or, Captain Danton’s Daughters

CHAPTER XIX
11/30

Too late! It would not be too late if you were before the altar! Better stop now and endure the humiliation than render your own and this man's future life miserable.
You will never be happy as Sir Ronald Keith's wife; he will never be happy as your husband.

I know how you are trying to delude yourself; I know you are trying to believe you will love him and be happy by-and-by.
Don't indulge such sophistry any longer; don't be led away by your own pride and folly." "Pride and folly!" she echoed indignantly.
"Yes, I repeat it.

Your heart, your conscience, must own the truth of what I say, if your lips will not.

Would you ever have accepted Sir Ronald Keith if your father had not been about to marry Grace Danton ?" The sudden flush that overspread her face answered for her, though she did not speak.

She sat looking straight before her into vacancy, with a hard, despairing look in her dark, deep eyes.
"You know you would not.


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