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'Why did you twit me with changing my love?'
'Because I am a woman. Can't you forgive as much as that to me?'
'Certainly. Only you must not think that I have been false because
I now love so dearly.'
'I do not think you are false. I would do anything to help you if
there were anything I could do. But when you spoke so like a Romeo
of your love,--'
'Why not like a Romeo, if I feel like a Romeo?'
'But I doubt whether Romeo talked much to Rosaline of his love for
Juliet. But you shall talk to me of yours for Lady Mary, and I
will listen to you patiently and encourage you, and will not even
think of those former vows.'
'The former vows were foolish.'
'Oh--of course.'
'You at least used to say so.'
'I say so now, and they shall be as though they had never been
spoken. So you bearded the Duke in his den, and asked him for Lady
Mary's hand,--just as though you had been a young Duke yourself and
owned half a county?'
'Just the same.'
'And what did he say?'
'He swore that it was impossible.-Of course I knew all that
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