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 "Were that," said he, expressively, "the severest pain she inflicts upon me, I should soon become her debtor for feelings that leave pain apart!—Urgent, indeed, was my desire to see you again, and without delay; for after what has passed this morning, silence and forbearance are no longer practicable."

"Yet, at this moment," said Ellis, striving but ineffectually to speak without disturbance; "it will be impossible for me to defer returning to the house."

"Yet if not now, when?"

"I know not—but she will be very impatient for some account of her letter."

"She will, at least, not be desperate, since she expects, and therefore will wait for you; how, then, can I hope to find a more favourable opportunity, for obtaining a few instants of your time?"

"But, though she may not be desperate just now, is it not possible, Sir, that my staying may irritate, and make her so?"