nothingness cold and bloodless, bearing a thought that she might make a good youth happy, or nurse him sinking—­be of that use.  Besides he was a refuge from the roof of her parents.  She shut her eyes on the past, sure of his goodness; goodness, on her return to some sense of being, she prized above other virtues, and perhaps she had a fancy that to be allied to it was to be doing good.  After a few months she buried him.  From that day, or it may be, on her marriage day, her heart was Alvan’s.  Years later she wrote her version of the story, not sparing herself so much as she supposed.  Providence and her parents were not forgiven.  But as we are in her debt for some instruction, she may now be suffered to go.

ETEXT EDITOR’S BOOKMARKS: 

A tragic comedian:  that is, a grand pretender, a self-deceiver
At the age of forty, men that love love rootedly
Hosts of men are of the simple order of the comic
Men in love are children with their mistresses
Providence and her parents were not forgiven
She ran through delusion and delusion, exhausting each
Trick for killing time without hurting him
Weak souls are much moved by having the pathos on their side

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