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CHAPTER XV.-4
"No!" said Magdalen. "It's not his disposition; it's his love for Me." "Call it what you like," retorted Mr. Clare. "Sneak or Sweetheart —he's too slippery, in either capacity, for my fingers to hold him. My shutting the door won't keep him from coming back. Your shutting the door will. Have you the courage to shut it? Are you fond enough of him not to stand in his light?" "Fond! I would die for him!" "Will you send him to China?" She sighed bitterly. "Have a little pity for me," she said. "I have lost my father; I have lost my mother; I have lost my fortune—and now I am to lose Frank. You don't like women, I know; but try to help me with a little pity. I don't say it's not for his own interests to send him to China; I only say it's hard—very, very hard on me." Mr. Clare had been dea
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