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THE SKJUTS-BOY. #39
refuse your honourable proposais. If is my hear# which says, I
can never love you !"
"Alas! if you will only become my wife, and not hate me, I
will be satisfied; I shall love you the more myseff."
"That cannot be; if would be wrong ! If is also utterly im-
possible for me fo marry any one but the one who really gains
my hear#. But a gentleman with such pride as you bave, 1Vfr.
de Goesse, who knows what he owes fo himself, I should think,
would hot thus give himself up fo unmanly weakness. I think
that I bave been enabled to learn sufficicntly of you, during out
shor# acquaintance, fo convince myself that you will prove to a
girl who is obliged fo refuse yo# hand, that she bas not re-
nounced only the mere expectation of a maintenance–"
"What do you mean, divine Amelia # Help, advise me!
What shall I do fo be worthy of you ?"
"If you really wish my advice, and fo win my esteem, and tha.t
of others who are acquainted with the marrer, then be as re-
served as possible, even fo your most intimate friends. Do hOt
give way fo unmanly complaints and wailings, because hope bas
i#ailed you; as, aside from that, such weaknesses will avail you no-
" thing, and will give other pegple an OplWrtunity fo make a laugh-
ing-stock of you: but if you are silent and reserved, no one will
be able fo guess how your visit bas turned out. Even should
they know that you came here for the purpose of honouring me
with the proposal of your hand, they will not know but that you
altered your mind after you had axrived here. You must try
fo make them believe that you bave given up your former
plans."
« Ay, Miss Amelia, your confidence, your friendship, are in-
valuable fo me ! # thank you from the bottom of my heart ! 1:
now know how I must act. Iqo mor#al shall ever know what
bas hapllened betweef# us. This sweet, but so biffer secret, I
will keep fo myself# and the world shall see that # ara a man
who knows how fo bear his rate !"
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