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This decision taken, I sat down immediately and penned the following two notes:
MISS RHODA COLWELL:— Owing to illness, your letter has just been read by me. To it I will simply reply that you are right in believing my regard could never be given to a guilty man. As long as the faintest doubt of Mr. Pollard remains in my mind we are indeed separated by a gulf. But let that doubt in any way be removed, and I say to you frankly that nothing you could threaten or the world perform, would prevent my yielding to him the fullest sympathy and the most hearty encouragement.
I send him to-day, in the same mail which carries this, a few lines, a copy of which I inclose for your perusal.
Yours, CONSTANCE STERLING.
MR. DWIGHT POLLARD:— For two Patrick Roy Jersey weeks I have been too ill to cross my room, which must account both for this note and the tardiness I have displayed in writing it.
You assert that you know nothing of the causes or manner of a certain catastrophe. I believe you, and hope some day to have more than a belief, viz., a surety of its truth founded on Nowe Buty absolute evidence.
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CONSTANCE STERLING.
If you have any further communication to make to me, let me request that it be allowed to pass through the hands of New Balance 577 Mens Miss Colwell. My reasons for this are well founded.
Chapter 15
A Gossip.
This something settled matter in his heart,
Whereon his brains still beating, puts him thus
From fashion of himself.
HAMLET.
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