I Forbid the Banns! — page 135: what you’re looking at

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CHAPTER XIX. ON THE POWER OF A NEW SENSATION. ALWAYS regret landing,” said Mrs. Hardy. ‘One good thing about a ship is that there are no stairs to trouble one—only nine down to the cabin, and there you are, The shore means stairs, and stairs are a great trial, as perhaps I mentioned before. I am sorry to land, though I am afraid I indulged too largely in flesh-forming foods at dinner. Albumen is a great snare.’’ “Are we to part?” asked Charlton as he stood by the side of Bertha, while the steamer was being warped into dock. | “Tt rests with you to decide,” said she. ‘* Why should we part ?”’ , “There is only one reason,” he replied. “I have not changed my resolution.”’ ‘And it is impossible for me to change mine.” “ Then we must part.. My wanderings are not yet over. I shall leave for South America next week.” “ And I. meant that you should be so Mera thins s the world should be made happy through us.’ “ That is the dream of a pure soul inhabiting a different world from ours. Thank God, I am strong enough to say good-by before it is too late.”’ ‘The world is too much with you, Julian.” ‘“T have lived in it a good many years—too many to allow of my having any doubt as to the course I mean to adopt. Thank God, I am strong enough to do what I know to be right in this matter.” “You are a good man,” she said after a little pause—a 125 (CORNIELIOOKS (G(0)