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is a part of the punishment for the mistake that one makes.'
'It is a sad affair altogether.'
'The saddest in the world. Lady Milborough has no doubt spoken to you
about it.'
'Well yes; she has.'
'How could she help it? I am not such a fool as to suppose that people
are to hold their tongues about me more than they do about others.
Intimate as she is with you, of course she has spoken to you.'
'I was in hopes that something might have been done by this time.'
'Nothing has been done. Sometimes I think I shall put an end to myself,
it makes me so wretched.'
'Then why don't you agree to forget and forgive and have done with it?'
'That is so easily said, so easily said.' After this they walked on in
silence for a considerable distance. Mr Glascock was not anxious to
talk about Trevelyan's wife, but he did wish to ask a question or two
about Mrs Trevelyan's sister, if only this could be done without
telling too much of his own secret. 'There's nothing I think so grand
as walking up a mountain,' he said after a while.


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