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300 secret, which he had no business to trouble me about.

"Why," said I—"why should you suppose that I dislike the place?"

"You told me so yourself," was the decisive reply. "You said, at least, that you could not live contentedly without a friend; and that you had no friend here, and no possibility of making one—and besides, I know you must dislike it."

"But, if you remember rightly," I said—or meant to say, I could not live contentedly without a friend in the world: I was not so unreasonable as to require one always near me. I think I could be happy in a house full of enemies if—" but no; that sentence must not be continued—I paused, and hastily added, "And besides, we cannot well leave a place where we have lived for two or three years, without some feeling of regret."

"Will you regret to part with Miss Murrayyour sole remaining pupil and companion?

"I dare say I shall in some degree—it was not without sorrow I parted with her sister."

"I can imagine that."