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Rh "Oh, no! you know nothing of her former life; and last year at this time, you did not know that such a person existed."

"No matter. There is such a thing as looking through a person's eyes into the heart, and learning more of the height, and breadth, and depth of another's soul in one hour, than it might take you a life time to discover, if he or she were not disposed to reveal it,—or if you had not the sense to understand it."

"Then you are going to see her this evening?"

"To be sure I am!"

"But what would mamma say, Gilbert?"

"Mamma need'nt know."

"But she must know sometime, if you go on."

"Go on!—there's no going on in the matter Mrs. Graham and I are two friends—and will be; and no man breathing shall hinder it,—or has a right to interfere between us."

"But if you knew how they talk, you would be more careful—for her sake as well as for your