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"Say twelve months hence."
"I will be waiting for you."
"You will go with me to New Orleans?"
"I will go with you wherever you go. Your God shall be my God; your
home, my home, Richard."
"My dear Elizabeth! I am the proudest and happiest man in the world!"
"And I, Richard; am I not happy, also? I have chosen you freely, I
love you with all my heart."
"Have you considered well what you give up?"
"I have put you against it. My gain is incalculably greater than my
loss."
"What will you do about Hallam?"
"I shall hold Hallam for Antony; and if he redeem it honorably, no
one will rejoice more truly than I shall. If he fail to do this, I
will hold it for Antony's son. I most solemnly promised my father to
save Hallam for Hallam, if it was possible to do so wisely. He told
me always to consult with Whaley and with you; and he has left all
to our honor and our love."
"I will work with you, Elizabeth. I promised your father I would."
"I told Antony that I only held the estate for him, or his; but he
did not believe me."
"When I come for you, what is to be done with it?"
"Whaley will take charge of it. The income will be in the meantime
lawfully ours. Father foresaw so many 'ifs' and contingencies, that
he preferred to trust the future welfare of Hallam to us.
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