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Show 80 HICHARD IIURDJS. "And if I ltad hopes of him, or of any nHUJ, John Ilurdis, they should be entomLcd in the hosom, wll('rc t!Jcy had tllcir birth, before my l ips or looks slwuld d<'cbrc them to otltcr bosoms than my own. I ltave 110 h OJlCS, such as you speak of ; nnd, so truly as I stand before you, l tell you that I know not, thnt I ltavc in my heart a solitary sentiment with reference to your brotltcr, which, nccording to my present thought, I would not you should hear. 'J'hat I have always regarded him with favor, is true; th::tt I {loom !tim to be posscssrd of some very noble qua lities, is no less true. ~fore; 1 t('IJ you, it is with pain, anxious and deep pain, that I ltrtvc beheld his coldness, when we lw.vc met of late, and llis estrangement from me, for so long a. period. I would give much to know why it is. I would do much that it ~hou ld be otl1erwisc." "J\ ml yet you know not, J\(ary, that you love l1im 1" "I know not, Jolm; and if the knowledge may be now obtained, I would infinitely prefer not to know. It would avail me nothing, :mel migl1t-might become k nown to !tim." 'L'here is no need to dwell longer upon this intcrdcw, though the Ycxing spiri t of my b1·other, clothing what he spoke still iu the language of dissimulation, }Jrotrncted it fOr some time longer, ir1 vnin assaults upon h01· firmness, :md, fnili ng in tk1t, in mean l)arcasms, wl1ich were doubly mean as they were disguised alterJwtely in the lang ungc of ltumil intion and of loYe. \Vhcn he left her, she hurried to l1cr clmmlJcr, utterly cxlwusted with n struggle in which all the strength of l1cr 111incl had been em} Jloycd in the double duty of contending ·with It is nnd of keeping her own feelings, upon which it wns Ids purpo::;e to ]Jlay, in quiet and subjection. H er tears came to her r elief, when she found ltersclf nloue, but they could not LHnish from her n1 ind a 11ew consciousness, whicl1, from the moment when she }Ja•·ted with my brother, kept forcing itself upon her. u Did sl10, in truth, love Richard llurclis 1" was her question to herself. How gladly, that moment, would I luwe listened to her :lllSWCI'! GUILTY l'RAC'l'JCI<;. OHAl''l'E R X I. GUILTY I'RACTICl::. .Jfacbei!t. --Know That it wlls he, in the timea paat, which held you So under f._H'tu ne; which, you tl10ught, hllJ. Lcen Our innoCiJilL self: this I uwde good to ):ou . Ju om· last. conference; passed in probatlun wtth you 1Jow you were \.Jon10 in lumd; how crossed. * * * * * * Now, if you hnve n stntion in the file, . A1Hi 11ot in the wor13t I'll Ilk of mauhood, say 1t ; And 1 will put t.hnt bu~iucss in your bo~Oll1!\ 'Vhose e.xceution tnkes you r enemy off; Grnpplcs you to the \,ea1·t n.nd Jo;e o~ II~ 'Vho wcn1· om· henlt.h Lut 13Jckly 111 lu~ life, 'Vhich in his death were pe.-fcct. J.lfurderrr. I nm one, my liege. Whom the vile blows and Uuffds of the world Have so i n ce n~e,J, thnt I ll!H reckless what 1 do to spite the wodJ.-SH.\Ii:;u•&nl'. !H •rue interview had barely terminated when my brot~ICr left tho habitation of the maiden. lie had prcser~ecl l~1S ~omposure, at least he had concealed the passion wluch h.1s d rsapllointment lt:ul a roused within him, 1~ntil fai•:ly out of s1ght. It was then that he ga,·e vent to fcelwgs winch I hn~ not supposed ]1j 111 to possess. Uase I thought him, envious 1t may be i but of malignity and vi11erous hate, I had never once suspected him. He had. always scemetl to me, as lte seemed to others, t~o fat for bitterness, too fond of e:tse and quiet to suffer ~ny dtsnppointment to distnrb him g reatly. \ Ve were all. tmstak en. \Vheu he rcnched the cover of the woods he t·a:·c~ hkc a. madman. rrhe fit of fury did not last very long, It IS t:uo i ~t while it lasted, it was torrible, and in the end exhaustmg. e threw himself from l1is horse, and, casting the bridle over a 4• |