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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. THE COLONEL BETRAYS HIMSELF. Perhaps never within the limits of his memory had Bathurst found himself in so desponding a frame of mind. He was so genuine, so thoroughly true to himself, that he acknowledged at once the strength of his feeling in all its intensity. God kuows, she may be right after all Mrs. Elmore's words would recur to him?was it fair to himself or Adelaide that he should meet her and fan the smouldering fire within him to flame ? or was it kind to Here he stopped in his musing, and another recollection changed the whole course of his thought. Kind to her Kindness or unkindness will scarcely affect her. I flinched from the look of her proud eyes to-day. She never threw me a word. Whatever the slight misunderstanding existing in her mind, she need not treat me like that. He was beginning already to exercise a certain right over the woman who had no knowledge that she loved him. In his anguish of mind he forgot many things. He forgot that for several weeks his mind had been absorbed by her, that she knew nothing of this, and that even his name had not been uttered to her. Suppose that, after all, in her wandering mind there had been only imagination, and not fact ? There had not been, through the course of her life, any outlet for natural feeling; and perhaps the mere force of nature itself drew those words from her. Why did he turn cold as the suggestion crept over him ? Would it not be better?a thousand times better?if she didnot care for him ? Reason insisted on an affirmative, but from his heart he could not give one. He was not learned in the ways of love, he was not discriminating in women's ways, or he would have discovered from this strange behaviour of hers a very proof of her regard. To go there?to meet her with co...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217442589 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217442587 |
| Weight | 0.40 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.27 In |
| List Price | $14.14 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 114 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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