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Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia

CHAPTER XXV
11/18

Do with me as you please; and yet, if you are bent to wed with another, and forget and overlook your wrongs to me, there is one kindness which would become your hands, and which I would joy to receive from them.

Will you do for me this kindness, Guy?
Nay, now be not harsh, but say that you will do it." She seized his hand appealingly as she spoke, and her moist but untearful eyes were fixed pleadingly upon his own.

The outlaw hesitated for a moment before he replied.
"I propose, Ellen, to do for you all that may be necessary--to provide you with additional comforts, and carry you to a place of additional security, where you shall live to yourself, and have good attendance." "This is kind--this is much, Guy; but not much more than you have been accustomed to do for me.

That which I seek from you now is something more than this; promise me that it shall be as I say." "If it breaks not into my arrangements--if it makes me not go aside from my path, I will certainly do it, Ellen.

Speak, therefore; what is it I can do for you ?" "It will interfere with none of your arrangements, Guy, I am sure; it can not take you from your path, for you could not have provided for that of which you knew not.


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