I Forbid the Banns! — page 377: what you’re looking at

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ON THE EMBANKMENT. 367 the pity of it. That is the pity of the situation. It is not the man’s name that is dragged in the mire under such cir- cumstances—it is the woman’s. That lad who went about the grounds for an hour searching for the miscreant whom he meant to punish took the right view of the matter. He took care that the mire should cling to the right person— and it did. Ido not suppose that you have anything more to say to me to-day, Mr. Charlton.”’ “Only this,” said Julian. ‘‘ You do not understand any- thing of the nature of—of—my wife, if you fancy for a moment that she does not consider herself bound to me by a bond that is far more indissoluble than the bond of marriage. With God’s help I shall find her and bring her back to me. I will give up my life to the task of finding her.” “ And if you succeed in persuading her to go back to you,” said the minister, ‘I will admit that I have failed to appreciate her nature.” CONMMIELIOOlKS EC)