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How had you the heart to serve me so, like a
stony Greek statue?"
"I thought it must be right. It seemed to break my own heart too."
"That's the woman's way of showing a thing is right; but why I can't
see. If you did hate me, it might be all very well to throw me
over; but if not, why torture two as well as one? Are you afraid of
my people? I'll manage them."
"You little know--"
"Know what?"
"All that made it cruel in Camilla to throw us together."
"Cruel! when it was the crowning joy of my past life, and is to be
the crowning joy of the future?"
"How can it? Frank, you must know the causes your mother has for
abhorring any connection with our unhappy family."
"My mother has too much sense to think a little extravagance among
the men of a family can affect the daughters. I know the outer
world is afraid of her, but she is the tenderest and most indulgent
of mothers to us. No fear of her!"
"Ah! but that's not all."
"You mean that she has not taken much to your sister. I know; and
I'm very sorry; but bring them together, and it would soon be got
over.


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