"Strange as it may be to you to hear me say it,
there's a good you can do me and a help you can
render."

"Isn't it then exactly what I ve been trying to
make you feel?"

"Yes," she answered patiently, " but so in the
wrong way. I'm perfectly honest in what I say,
and I know what I'm talking about. It isn't that I ll
pretend I could have believed a month ago in any
thing to call aid or support from you. The case is
changed that's what has happened; my difficulty's
a new one. But even now it's not a question of any
thing I should ask you in a way to do. It's simply
a question of your not turning me away taking
yourself out of my life. It's simply a question of
your saying: Yes then, since you will, we ll stand
together. We won't worry in advance about how
or where; we ll have a faith and find a way. That's
all that would be the good you'd do me. I should
have you, and it would be for my benefit. Do you
see?"

If he didn't it was not for want of looking at
her hard. " The matter with you is that you re in
love, and that your aunt knows and for reasons,
I'm sure, perfect hates and opposes it. Well she
may! It's a matter in which I trust her with my
eyes shut. Go, please." Though he spoke not in
anger rather in infinite sadness he fairly turned
her out. Before she took it up he had, as the fullest
expression of what he felt, opened the door of the

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