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uld discover this within a year after marriage; and that to twelve months’ rapture would succeed a lifetime of regret。 This I know。”

“Strange indeed!” I could not help ejaculating。

“While something in me;” he went on; “is acutely sensible to her charms; something else is as deeply impressed with her defects: they are such that she could sympathise in nothing I aspired to—co… operate in nothing I undertook。 Rosamond a sufferer; a labourer; a female apostle? Rosamond a missionary’s wife? No!”

“But you need not be a missionary。 You might relinquish that scheme。”

“Relinquish! What! my vocation? My great work? My foundation laid on earth for a mansion in heaven? My hopes of being numbered in the band who have merged all ambitions in the glorious one of bettering their race—of carrying knowledge into the realms of ignorance—of substituting peace for war—freedom for bondage—religion for superstition—the hope of heaven for the fear of hell? Must I relinquish that? It is dearer than the blood in my veins。 It is what I have to look forward to; and to live for。”

After a considerable pause; I said—“And Miss Oliver? Are her disappointment and sorrow of no interest to you?”

“Miss Oliver is ever surrounded by suitors and flatterers: in less than a month; my image will be effaced from her heart。 She will forget me; and will marry; probably; some one who will make her far happier than I should do。”

“You speak coolly enough; but you suffer in th

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