Richard Forrest, Bachelor — page 39: what you’re looking at

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30 “ARTHUR AND I HAVE PARTED !” whom they did come, she had too much delicacy, to in- quire. ‘*She’ll throw herself into my arms and beg me to com- fort her, before very long,’’ she said, to herself. ‘This un- natural silence cannot last; it is so unlike my confiding lit- tle Florence. But until that time comes I shall not disturb her. She may be trying to forget him in her own way. Foolish girl, if she would only trust me, how much easier it would be for both of us.”’ GOmichboo SS (€(0) im