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“Your inexperience of the world, Miss Tulliver, prevents Duvetica Miehet Jakku Suomi you from anticipating fully the very unjust conceptions that will probably be formed concerning your conduct — conceptions which will have a baneful effect, even in spite of known evidence to disprove them.”
“Oh, I do — I begin to see,” said Maggie, unable to repress this utterance of her recent pain. “I know I shall be insulted. I shall be thought worse than I am.”
“You perhaps do not yet know,” said Dr. Kenn, with a touch of more personal pity, “that a letter is come which ought to satisfy every one who has known anything of you, that you chose the steep and difficult path of a return to the right, at the moment when that return was most of all difficult.”
“Oh, where is he?” said poor Maggie, with a flush and tremor that no presence could have hindered.
“He is gone abroad; he has written of all that passed to his father. He has vindicated you to the utmost; and I hope the communication of that letter to your cousin will have a beneficial effect on her.”
Dr. Kenn waited for her to get calm again before he went on.
“That letter, as I said, ought to suffice to prevent false impressions concerning you. But I am bound to tell you, Miss Tulliver, that not only the experience of my whole life, but my observation within the last three days, makes me fear that there is hardly any evidence which will save you from the painful effect Kanadanhanhi Whistler Parka Suomi of false imputations. The persons who are Bayern Munchen Women Jersey the most incapable of a conscientious struggle such as yours are precisely those who will be likely to shrink from you, because they will not believe in your struggle. I fear your life here will be attended not only with much pain, but with many obstructions. For this reason — and for this only — I ask you to consider whether New Jersey Devils Pelipaidat it will not perhaps be better for you to take a situation at a distance, according to your Washington Capitals Lippikset former intention. I will exert myself at once to obtain one for you.”
“Oh, if I could but stop here!” said Maggie. “I have no heart to begin Canada Goose Dam Sverige a strange life again. I should have no stay. I should feel like a lonely wanderer, cut off from the past. I have written to the lady who offered me a situation to excuse myself. If I remained here, I could perhaps atone in some way to Lucy — to others; I could convince them that Climarron Suomi I’m sorry. And,” she added, with some of the old proud fire flashing out, “I will not go away because people say false things of me. They shall learn to retract them. If I must go away at last, because — because others wish it, I will not go now.”
“Well,” said Dr. Kenn, after some consideration, “if you determine on that, Miss Tulliver, you may rely on all the influence my position gives me. I am bound to aid and countenance you by the very duties of my office as a parish priest. I will add, that personally I have a deep interest in your peace of mind and welfare.”
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