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    `Maggie,  last, pausing before one of imploring cy -  I did yesterday. - I  your full consent. But dont bligy t can anso any one - t can only create ne do -  - t you are going to do. Dont treat me as if you couldnt trust me.

    effective appeal; but Maggies o suffer.

    `e must not , s distinct voice. `e must part at once.

    `e cant part, Maggie, said Stepuously. `I cant bear it.  is ting t misery on me? tever it may ruck no  you should drive me mad?

    `I  begin any future, even for you, said Maggie, tremulously, `e consent to o  I told you at Basset I feel noo temptation. It er if   part now.

    `e  part, Step out, instinctively placing  tting everyts before. `I  endure it. Youll make me desperate - I s know w I do.

    Maggie trembled. S t ting could not be effected suddenly. S rely on a sloo Stepter self - s be prepared for a ask t of rusion epc look of desperation  like t of a frig t opposition  ermination groronger.

    `Remember   - t o ot conquer every inclination  debt. e o keep our resolutions - but the same.

    `No, it does not remain tep it o keep our resolutions. e  torong to be overcome. t natural las every ot  it clash.

    `It is not so, Stepe sure t is o t again and again - but I see, if   for all treacy -  sacred ties t can ever be formed on eart is not to bind us, ion of t.

    `But ties t cant be kept by mere resolution, said Steparting up and  again. ` is outancy  love?

    Maggie did not