A Social Meteor — page 218: what you’re looking at

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208 A SOCIAL METEOR, and unbecoming of me to acknowledge this; I have been told that your whole heart is wrapped — upin her, and yet,I cannot help it. I could not bear to see you marry her; she is not your equal, and you are certain to repent, when it is too late. Oh, Jack, if it is my fate to care for you, in spite of everything, to be unhappy throughout all the long years which may yet be before me, will not you be generous and sacrifice a little for my sake? Recollect how dearly you once loved mie.” His face softened while she was speaking, and his eyes grew grave and sad. “Georgie,” he said, huskily, as she finished, “this distresses me more than I can tell you. I was brutal to youin the past, and how I ever could have treated you as I did is a mystery, even to myself; I cannot bear to think of it. I repaid your love with indifference, and your de- votion with neglect. I confess it with shame. But I hoped that you would not take it to heart, as it seems you did; I believed you would soon forget me, though not for a moment did I doubt your sincerity. But you were too good for me, I never was worthy of you, for when she crossed my path I thought no more of you. She fasci- Gomicbooks (E@)