'
'Certainly not.'
'And therefore I was not struck, as by the shining of la light
from heaven. I cannot say that I loved him, Frank,--I am beyond
worshipping even an angel from heaven.'
'Then I do not know that you can blame him,' he said very
seriously.
'Just so;--and as I have chosen to be honest I have told him
everything. But I had my revenge first.'
'I would have said nothing.'
'You would have recommended--delicacy! No doubt you think that
women should be delicate let them suffer what they may. A woman
should not let it be known that she has any human nature in her. I
had him on the hip, and for a moment I used my power. He had
certainly done me a wrong. He had asked for my love,--and with the
delicacy which you commend, I had not at once grasped at all that
such a request conveyed. Then, as he told me so frankly, he
"changed his mind"! Did he not wrong me?'
'He should not have raised false hopes.'
'He told me that--he had changed his mind. I think I loved him then
as nearly as I ever did,--because he looked me full in the face.
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