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88 BLACK SHEEP.as soon as he released her from the spell of hisearnestness and passion — "Iam going away.don't treat you quite so badly as you try to makeout, you see, orIshould not tell you about it,orconsult you, or anything, but just go — go rightaway, youknoyv, ancl make an endof it."Routh's stern face flushed, and then darkenedyvith a look yvhich Harriet had learned to know,but yvhich Mrs. Ireton P. Bembridge had neverseen. She did not seeit noyv, and continued:" Isent for you to tell you this.Idon't likeIthe place;I'm tiredof it. It's too small, and yetevery one comes here, and I'm talked of. Ah,Iremember allIyou sneer! Well,Iknoyv.have said about that, but it is one thing to betalked of in London or Paris, and quite anotherto be the object of the daily curiosity and themalice — "" You mean the envy-, don't you?" saidRouth."NoIdon't,Imean the malice; yvell theenvy, or the malice, or only the observation, ifyou like, of ahvays the samepeople, yy hornImeetin always the same places. Tliat is apart of myreason, but only apart. Idon't like Mr.Felton,