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ON TEE PIER. 255<br />

How glad and thankful, it would be hard<br />

for me to say. But he feels he dares not,<br />

he ought not, to take advantage <strong>of</strong> your<br />

goodness. Until he can <strong>of</strong>fer you a name<br />

with no stain resting on it, he will never<br />

avail himself <strong>of</strong> your generous confidence.<br />

I think, myself, it is the only course left<br />

open to him as a man <strong>of</strong> honour."<br />

*^ I thought he would say that. I<br />

thought that would be the message you<br />

would bring me," said Milly. ''But things<br />

must be as they were. I do n't go back<br />

from my word. When Mr. Dale leaves<br />

his prison, I am ready to keep it. T<strong>her</strong>e<br />

are ot<strong>her</strong> places than England to live in.<br />

He may ma,ke a career for himself else-<br />

w<strong>her</strong>e, if one is closed to him <strong>her</strong>e."<br />

She had made up <strong>her</strong> mind to this, evi-<br />

dently. In <strong>her</strong> quiet, sensible, unromantic<br />

fashion, determined on the sacrifice ; and<br />

yet she knew what such a sacrifice meant.<br />

T<strong>her</strong>e was no romance, no enthusiasm in

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