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 This determined, she anxiously desired, before her departure, to restore, if she could discover their owner, the anonymous bank-notes, which she was resolute not to use; and, hearing the step of Harleigh passing her door in descending the stairs, she hastened after him, with the little packet in her hand.

Turning round as he reached the hall, and observing, with pleased surprise, her intention to speak to him, he stopt.

"You have been so good to me, Sir," she said, "so humane and so considerate, by every possible occasion, that I think I may venture to beg yet one more favour of you, before I leave Lewes."

Her dejected tone extremely affected him, and he waited her explanation with looks that were powerfully expressive of his interest in her welfare.

"Some one, with great, but mistaken kindness," she continued, "has imagined my necessities stronger than my....." She stopt, as if at a loss for a word, and then, with a smile, added, "my pride,