I clasped my hands together in a kind of desperation.

"What can I do?" I murmured--"If I yielded now to my own impulses--"

"Ah! If you did"--he said, wistfully--"But you will not; and perhaps,

after all, it is better so. It is no doubt intended that you should be

absolutely certain of yourself this time. And I will not stand in the

way. Good-night,--and farewell!"

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