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e other." "What are the three?" "We might get married." "Well?" "One of the three I shall not tell you. And we might--make up our minds to forget it all. Do what the people call, part. That is what I suggest." "So that you may spend your time in riding about with Lady George Germain." "That is nonsense, Guss. Lady George Germain I have seen three times, and she talks only about her husband; a pretty little woman more absolutely in love I never came across." "Pretty little fool!" "Very likely. I have nothing to say against that. Only, when you have no heavier stone to throw against me than Lady George Germain, really you are badly off for weapons." "I have stones enough, if I chose to throw them. Oh, Jack!" "What more is there to be said?" "Have you had enough of me already, Jack?" "I should not have had half enough of you if either you or I had fifty thousand pounds." "If I had them I would give them all to you." "And I to you. That goes without telling. But as neither of us have got the money, what are we to do? I know what we had better not do. We had better not make each other unhappy by what people call recriminations." "I don't suppose that anything I say can affect your happiness." "Yes, it does; very much. It makes me think of deep rivers, and high columns; of express trains and prussic acid. Well as we have known each other, you have never found out how unfortunately soft I am." "Very soft!" "I am. This troubles me so that I ride over awfully big places, thinking that I might perhaps be lucky enough to break my neck." "What must I feel, who have no way of amusing myself at all?" "Drop it. I know it is a hard thing for me to say. I know it will sound heartless. But I am bound to say so. It is for your sake. I can't hurt myself. It does me no harm that everybody knows that I am philandering after you; but it is the very deuce for you." She was silent for a moment. Then he said again emphatically, "Drop it." "I can't drop it," she said, through her tears. "Then what are we to do?" As he asked this question, he approached her and put his arm round her waist. This he did in momentary vacillating mercy,--not because of the charm of the thing to himself, but through his own inability not to give her some token of affection. "Marry," she said, in a whisper. "And go and live at Dantzic for the rest of our lives!" He did not speak these words, but such was the exclam
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