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The Man

CHAPTER XX--CONFIDENCES
19/21

'Why, I thought there was no one in the world that you trusted so much as Harold!' 'It is true.

There was--there is no one except you whom I trust so much.
But I mistook something he said.

I was in a blind fury at the time, and I said things that I thought my father's daughter never could have said.
And she never thought them, even then! Oh, Auntie, I drove him away with all the horrible things I could say that would wound him.

And all because he acted in a way that I see now was the most noble and knightly in which any man could act.

He that my dear father had loved, and honoured, and trusted as another son.


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