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352 "No; but it's no matter," I answered carelessly; and if my cheek glowed like fire; it was rather at the question than the information it conveyed.

"You don't object to it?" he said.

"Not at all, if Lord Lowborough likes his company."

"You have no love left for him, then?"

"Not the least."

"I knew that—I knew you were too high-minded and pure in your own nature to continue to regard one so utterly false and poluted, with any feelings but those of indignation and scornful abhorrence!"

"Is he not your friend?" said I, turning my eyes from the fire to his face, with perhaps a slight touch of those feelings he assigned to another.

"He was," replied he, with the same calm gravity as before, "but do not wrong me by supposing that I could continue my friendship and esteem to a man who could so infamously—