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64 | BOT TO THE TEST care, but by and by he will long for what. he has been | accustomed to, and what can you do then ?” : | ‘Love him,” answered the poor girl, with a simplicity - that was divine. ‘““And he will-—hate you,” said Lord Coldenham, solemnly. | “Oh, no—no—no!” cried Violet, vehemently. “Yes,” said the man of iron, ‘he will remember the mother he has lost through you, and the money. Do you think, in your innocence, that he will be indifferent to money because he has you. Remember your own father, and see how poverty and privation have soured him and made him sad and discontented; and yet I do not doubt that the time was when he was as bright, as gay, yes, as handsome as Guy.” The poor child listened to him with a growing fear that what he said might be true. She could not understand it, — could not believe it, but there was a sort of inexorable logic in what he said that appealed to her in a way she could not escape from. “What shall ldo?” she moaned. _ “Think, too, of the mother—broken-hearted, ill, dying perhaps. Can you believe any happiness will follow a marriage that will cause such sorrow.” “Oh, stop! in mercy stop! How can I give up Guy when I love him so? How can EF?” ‘‘Ah,” said Lord Coldenham, shaking his head, “ better to give him up now than to suffer the pangs by and by of knowing that you have ruined his life. Think of that. With a wife suited to him by wealth as well as by birth and education, what is there that he cannot accomplish? What is there that he will not accomplish? He is gifted, and he is ambitious, and he may take a foremost place in the affairs of his country if the chance be open to him, but bind him to inaction by an injudicious marriage, and all the avenues to his ambition will be closed, and instead of happiness there wiil be nothing for him but misery and discontent.” “But I should help him, encourage him,” pleaded Violet. ™ | ‘‘Would it help him to impoverish him? Would it help him to shut him away from the friends who would help him? Would it help him to make a soured, discontented man of him ?” Violet clasped her hands and looked piteously at her tormentor, but she did not speak, and be went on. Eomichooks-com ’ y ee ee ee Ol ’ Oe at eS