My fortune then had not been made quite
shipwreck by my father and brother. I had before me all that
society could offer. I was called handsome and clever. Where was
there a girl more likely to make her way to the top?'
'You may do still.'
'No;--no;--I cannot. And you at least should not tell me so. I did
not know then the virulence of the malady which had fallen on me.
I did not know that, because of you, other men would have been
abhorrent to me. I thought that I was as easy-hearted as you have
proved yourself.'
'How cruel you can be.'
'Have I done anything to interfere with you? Have I said a word
even to that young lad when I might have said a word? Yes; to him
I did say something; but I waited, and would not say it, while a
word could hurt you. Shall I tell you what I told him? Just
everything that has ever happened between you and me.'
'You did?'
'Yes;--because I saw that I could trust him. I told him because I
wanted him to be quite sure that I had never loved him. But,
Frank, I have put no spoke in your wheel.
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