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"I must stay," she said, "no longer! Adieu, dear Miss Ellis! Think of me sometimes—for I shall think of you unceasingly!"
"Ah, Lady Aurora!" cried Ellis, clinging to her, "shall I see you, then, no more? And is this a last leave-taking?"
"O, far from it, far, far, I hope!" said Lady Aurora: "if I thought that we should meet no more, it would be impossible for me to tell you how unhappy this moment would make me!"
"Where is Lady Aurora?" would again have hurried her away; but Ellis, still holding by her, cried, "One moment! one moment!—I have not, then, lost your good opinion? Oh! if that wavers, my firmness wavers too! and I must unfold—at all risks—my unhappy situation!"
"Not for the world! not for the world!" cried Lady Aurora, earnestly: "I could not bear to seem to have any doubt to remove, when I have none,
