A Social Meteor — page 217: what you’re looking at

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A SOCIAL METEOR. 297 “I never suspected—” he began. “No, you never suspected; I didn’t myself until lately. I hoped and believed all the old feeling was gone; that it had died when you grew tired of me and left me.” “I never grew tired of you, I But she interrupted him once more, this time ? a little impatiently. ‘Don’t seek to excuse yourself by falsehood,” she said; “when you left me without a word ora syllable, I existed for months aimlessly, with no ambition for anything. At the mere mention of your name I would tremble, and if I had heard that you were going to marry any one else, I think I should have gone mad. For this reason I kept to myself, and so I heard nothing, until I believed that I had at last outgrown my sense- less passion—I even engaged myself to another, but what was the result? One day somebody told me about this—-this woman, and I have been miserable ever since. Turn which way I would, Icould only think of her, and wonder if you cared for her as you once did for me. They say we women have dogs’ natures, and I believe we have, for try as I may, I cannot crush down the feeling I still have for you I know it is foolish EORMIELOOOLKS (E@)