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You objected to my going to Middlemoor this morning.

No, I did not.

Nay, but you did. I read it in your eyes, gentle Harry. But now I set that journey aside: I will not leave thee a week; not half a week; no, not a day.

O what a tide of goodness flows upon me now! I shall be drowned therewith.—Not a day! Do you think I wish to have you always by my side? No, my dear Charles: go from home when you please; and when you return you will bring your sister and me all the news, and let us know how the world is moving. All the married folks, I know, are sometimes separated.

And are they as happy as you would wish to be?

They are happy enough, I suppose.

I suppose; suppose. The cold, formal, miserable word! I hate the very sound of it.—I may go from home, then, as often as I please. My