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She expressed her gratitude again, but it was too painful a subject to each,to be dwelt on farther.

“I must ask whether you were surprised?”said Elizabeth.

“From the former.I had narrowly observed her during the two visits which I had lately made here;and I was convinced of her affection.”

“Did you speak from your own observation,”said she,“when you told him that my sister loved him, or merely from my information last spring?”