Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 179: what you’re looking at

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position, I believe [ have sufticient moral courage to acknowledge our relations before the whole world,” he concluded, with a slight smwnile and a very tender glance at her fair, troubled face. “But, if I donot wish ee to, Percy—if I would rather you did not?” Hazel pleaded. She could not bear that any one should think ill of him for what was her fault alone. He regarded her keenly for a moment. ‘Hazel, I do not understand you,” he said at length. “You are very much chang from my frank, con- fiding little friend of years ago. Ai I to understand thateeou do not wish me to acknowledge, before ne aay people, even a previous acquaintance with you qe, She was nearly weeping, his tone was so stern, his expression 80 displeased; but she did not wish the Stewarts, the Harwoods and the duchess to know that she had been reared as Percy Morton's sister, and now that he was rapidly rising to eminence in his | profession, blame him, as she felt sure they would, or allowing her to teach for her livelihood. “Yes, Perey,’ she answered, trying to speak steadily. “I am afraid they would say hard things of you for what is my fault alone, and—I——” “And you would not like them to know, either, how willful Miss Hazel Gay is Capable of being,” he con- cluded, bitterly. ‘‘Very well,” he added, after a mo- ment of painful thought, and cut to the heart by her strange request, ‘I will humor you; fortunately no one knows of this interview, and since it is your wish that we should he regarded as strangers, I will not recognize you again, at least until we have been ener pot Ae win a ‘ amie Rie ai e bowed gravely to her, then turning on his heel, entered the house, jcavitieHaze! near! re pin cPaoRRC Cn