d you.’ And she dropped her work, and hid her face in her hands.
‘No, dear; don’t think that I am impertinently curious. I am sure you would have told me if you had felt that you could return his regard. Did he speak to you about it?’
No answer at first; but by-and-by a little gentle reluctant ‘Yes.’
‘And you refused him?’
A long sigh; a more helpless, nerveless attitude, and another Dayro Moreno Jersey ‘Yes.’ But before her father could speak, Margaret lifted up her face, rosy with some beautiful shame, and, fixing her eyes upon him, said:
‘Now, papa, I have told Oporto Drakter you this, and I cannot tell you more; and then the whole thing is so painful to me; every word and action connected with it is so unspeakably bitter, that I cannot bear to think of it. Oh, papa, I am sorry to have lost you this friend, but I could not help it — but oh! I am very sorry.’ She sate down on the ground, and laid her head on his knees.
‘I too, am sorry, my dear. Mr. Bell quite startled me when he said, some idea of the kind —’
‘Mr. Bell! Oh, did Mr. Bell see Ousmane Dembele Jersey it?’
‘A little; but he took it into his head that you — how shall I say it? — that you were not ungraciously disposed towards Mr. Thornton. I knew that could never be. I hoped the whole thing was but an imagination; but I knew too well what your real feelings were to suppose that you could ever like Mr. Thornton in that way. But I am very sorry.’
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