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46 BLACK SHEEP.ask me anything now. Don't speak words thatImust be doomed for ever to remember — for everto long to forget.Have so much mercy- on me,for the sake of the past and for the sake of thepresent. Ruin is impending over us; if youwill, y-ou may escape it;but there is only oneway."She had drawn near the door as she spoke thelast words.In another instant she had left him.Left him in a most unenviable state of bewilderment,rage, ancl confusion. The emotionyvhich had overpowered him yvhen he had madethe discovery of yesterday was almost forgotten inthe astonishment yvith yvhich Harriet's words hadfilled him.An uneasy sense, wliich was not anythingso wholesome as shame, was overhim. AVhatdid she know of his late proceedings? Had shewatched him ? Hacl any of the gossiping tonguesof the place carried the tidings of the beautifulAmerican's openly paraded conquest? No, thatcould hardlybe, for Harrietknew no oneatHomburgbut George,ancl George knew nothing abouthim. Was he not always with either his mother,or his uncle, or with Harriet herself? Besides,
A FTRST APPEAL.47George would not say anything to Harriet thatcould hurt her. The fellow was a fool and softhearted,his quondam friend thought, with muchsatisfaction. He must set it right with Harriet,however; under any circumstances he must notquarrel with her; in this fresh complication particularly-.It could only be a general notion thatshe had taken, and he must endeavour to removeit; for though he was horribly weary of her,though he hated her at that moment, and feltthat he should very likely continue to hate her,even at that moment, and while resolved to disregardher advice, and utterly- unmoved by- herappeal, he knew he could not afford to lose heraid.If the beautiful American could have seen thevisions of probabilities or possibilities in whichshe was concerned, that floated through StewartRouth's mind as he stood gazing out of the windoww-hen his wife had left him, she might, perhaps,have felt rather uneasy at the revelation.Mrs. Ireton P. Bembridge was not an adept atreading character, and sometimes, when a disagreeableimpression that her new admirer was a
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- Page 15 and 16: RECOGNITION. 7fought this false and
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- Page 27 and 28: RECOGNITION.19if you care for that
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- Page 33 and 34: RECOGNITION.25saidMrs.Ireton P. Bem
- Page 35 and 36: A FIRST APPEAL. 27impaired her facu
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- Page 44 and 45: 36 BLACK SHEEP." Iwill," she said,
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- Page 64 and 65: 56 BLACK SHEEP.he, on the other han
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- Page 84 and 85: 76 BLACK SHEEP.he sawa man standing
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A FTRST APPEAL.47George would not say anything to Harriet thatcould hurt her. <strong>The</strong> fellow was a fool and softhearted,his quondam friend thought, with muchsatisfaction. He must set it right with Harriet,however; under any circumstances he must notquarrel with her; in this fresh complication particularly-.It could only be a general notion thatshe had taken, and he must endeavour to removeit; for though he was horribly weary of her,though he hated her at that moment, and feltthat he should very likely continue to hate her,even at that moment, and while resolved to disregardher advice, and utterly- unmoved by- herappeal, he knew he could not afford to lose heraid.If the beautiful American could have seen thevisions of probabilities or possibilities in whichshe was concerned, that floated through StewartRouth's mind as he stood gazing out of the windoww-hen his wife had left him, she might, perhaps,have felt rather uneasy at the revelation.Mrs. Ireton P. Bembridge was not an adept atreading character, and sometimes, when a disagreeableimpression that her new admirer was a
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