ifice for one, to t iveness too  ain pang, alt made  to  tterness to ion t Maggie  as frank and unconstrained towards him as when she was a child.

    `I cant say eit last, turning round and o , lest I s seek for guidance.

    `May I come again, to-morro day - or next week?

    `I tter e, said Maggie faltering again. `I o go to St Oggs sometimes, and I can put tter in t.

    `O no, said P  be so  see tter - and -  any enmity, I believe, but ly from me;  deal about ion. Pray let me come ell me ell me, I en as I can till I do see you.

    `I t must be so, t be quite certain of coming icular evening.

    Maggie felt a great relief in adjourning to enjoy tes of companions t s linger a little: t time t, so pain Pelling ermination.

    `I cant  er a fes of silence, `range it is t alked to eac as if it erday  Lorton. And yet  botered in t is five years.  you seemed to  of feeling t I  quite so sure t you   so muco fill your mind - I  quite sure you  me now.

    `I  t you  see you, said P made me like you better t  to explain t: I dont trongest effects our natures are susceptible of can ever be explained. e can neitect t nor t on us. test of painters only once painted a mysteriously divine c old  - and  tell o be divine. I tores laid up in our ure t our understanding can make no complete inventory of. Certain strains of music affect me so strangely - I can never  ttitude of mind for a time, and if t  I might be capable of heroisms.

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