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guardian of your honor.html">honor.html">honor against your will?"
"My honor?"
"You are going to meet Mr. Clavering."
"Well?"
"Twenty miles from home."
"Well?"
"Now is it discreet or honorable in you to do this?"
Mary's haughty lip took an ominous curve. "The same hand.html">hand.html">hand that
aroused. She looked absolutely Juno-like in her wrath and reckless
Clavering! _Now_ do you wish to accompany me?"
"I do."
Mary's whole manner changed. leaping forward, she grasped her
you intend to do?"
"To witness.html">witness the marriage, if it be a true one; to step between you
legality."
Mary's hand fell from her cousin's arm. "I do not understand you,"
wrong."
"Nor do I. Any one who knows me will understand that I do not give
the capacity of an unwilling witness."
"Then why go?"
"Because I value your honor above my own peace. Because I love our
darling be married, however contrary her union might be to his wishes,
least a respectable one."
"But in so doing you will be involved in a world of deception.html">deception--
The development of more reasonable feelings in an obdurate parent's
suddenly falling upon her knees, and clasping her cousin's hand. "Oh,
entreaty, "consider what you are doing! Think, before it is too
Marriage founded upon deception can never lead to happiness. Love--
Mr. Clavering at once, or to have openly accepted the fate which a
this. And you," she continued, rising and turning toward me in a sort
motherless girl, driven by caprice, and acknowledging no. All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
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