Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 108: what you’re looking at

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“T know it, Percy; but you have always been so good to me that I could not help regarding you as | a brother.” | He longed to take her into his arms, and tell her all that wus in his heart, to probe her own and see if he could not awaken in it something of the passion that so. nearly deprived him of composure. But no, he told himself, he would wait until she was through school; it would not be best to startle her now and distract her thoughts from her studies. But after sie should graduate he would tell her how, for long years, she had been growing to be a part of his very self; he would win her with all the tender- less and eloquence, of which he was master, to be- come his wife. But, unconsciously, he had done mischief that night which he would have given worlds to undo, had he known. The storm that swept over Hazel's soul after he left her, bowed her to the earth. Ithad found her a happy child, it left her a suffering woman, and the fierce struggle made her weak and ill for several days, 80 that she was unable to see Percy the next time he care, When they did meet again he was troubled and anxious about her appearance, She was pale, and showed her recent illness more than he would have believed possible. Her manner was quiet and subdued, very unlike the free, out- spoken, merry Hazel of old; but he attributed this change to the state of her health. She gave him her hand when they met, but did not offer her lips as usnal, and when he bent to kisa her she turned him her pale, cold cheek. This pained him, but did not awaken a suspicion of the truth, and then she began to question him, about his life in Kingston, and kept him so DwP eS Pur