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You pervert them, you abuse them;
and, I must say, once and for all, that be the weight of your vengeance
what it may, I prefer bearing it to enduring the weight of a guilty
conscience."
The baronet rose, and rushing at her, raised his open hand and struck
her rather severely on the side of the head. She felt, as it were,
stunned for a little, but at length she rose up, and said: "Father, this
is the insanity of a bad ambition, or perhaps of affection, and you know
not what you have done." She then approached him, and throwing her arms
about his neck, exclaimed: "Papa, kiss me; and I shall never think of
it, nor allude to it;" as she spoke the tears fell in showers from her
eyes.
"No, madam," he replied, "I repulse you; I throw you off from me now and
forever."
"Be calm, papa; compose yourself, my dear papa. I shall not see Lord
Cullamore; it would be now impossible; I could not sustain an interview
with him. You, consequently, can have nothing to fear; you can say I am
ill, and that will be truth indeed.


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