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===Containing The Unsatisfactory Result Of Oliver's Adventure; And A Conversation Of Some Importance Between Harry Maylie And Rose===
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Jew! the Jew!'
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Mr. Giles was at a loss to comprehend what this outcry meant; but
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'What direction did he take?' he asked, catching up a heavy stick
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which was standing in a corner.
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'That,' replied Oliver, pointing out the course the man had
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'Then, they are in the ditch!' said Harry. 'Follow! And keep as
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near me, as you can.' So saying, he sprang over the hedge, and
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Giles followed as well as he could; and Oliver followed too; and
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in the course of a minute or two, Mr. Losberne, who had been out
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walking, and just then returned, tumbled over the hedge after
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On they all went; nor stopped they once to breathe, until the
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Oliver, began to search, narrowly, the ditch and hedge adjoining;
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which afforded time for the remainder of the party to come up;
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that had led to so vigorous a pursuit.
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left; but, in order to gain that, after pursuing the track Oliver
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'It must have been a dream, Oliver,' said Harry Maylie.
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'Oh no, indeed, sir,' replied Oliver, shuddering at the very
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recollection of the old wretch's countenance; 'I saw him too
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'Who was the other?' inquired Harry and Mr. Losberne, together.
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'The very same man I told you of, who came so suddenly upon me at
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'They took this way?' demanded Harry: 'are you sure?'
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'As I am that the men were at the window,' replied Oliver,
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pointing down, as he spoke, to the hedge which divided the
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there; and the Jew, running a few paces to the right, crept
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through that gap.'
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The two gentlemen watched Oliver's earnest face, as he spoke, and
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accuracy of what he said. Still, in no direction were there any
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feet had crushed it. The sides and brinks of the ditches were of
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damp clay; but in no one place could they discern the print of
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'This is strange!' said Harry.
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'Strange?' echoed the doctor. 'Blathers and Duff, themselves,
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Notwithstanding the evidently useless nature of their search,
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further prosecution hopeless; and even then, they gave it up with
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the village, furnished with the best description Oliver could
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give of the appearance and dress of the strangers. Of these, the
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Jew was, at all events, sufficiently remarkable to be remembered,
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supposing he had been seen drinking, or loitering about; but
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lessen the mystery.
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On the next day, fresh search was made, and the inquiries
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renewed; but with no better success. On the day following,
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Oliver and Mr. Maylie repaired to the market-town, in the hope of
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seeing or hearing something of the men there; but this effort was
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forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food
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Meanwhile, Rose was rapidly recovering. She had left her room:
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was able to go out; and mixing once more with the family, carried
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unwonted restraint upon some there: even upon Rose herself:
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which Oliver could not fail to remark. Mrs. Maylie and her son
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were often closeted together for a long time; and more than once
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Rose appeared with traces of tears upon her face. After Mr.
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Losberne had fixed a day for his departure to Chertsey, these
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'A few--a very few--will suffice, Rose,' said the young man,
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might have been the effect of her recent illness. She merely
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There were tears in the eyes of the gentle girl, as these words
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that she would return to the sorrow and calamity of this! Rose,
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winged their early flight; and yet to pray, amid all these
consolations, that you might be restored to those who loved
you--these were distractions almost too great to bear. They were
mine, by day and night; and with them, came such a rushing
torrent of fears, and apprehensions, and selfish regrets, lest
you should die, and never know how devotedly I loved you, as
almost bore down sense and reason in its course. You recovered.
Day by day, and almost hour by hour, some drop of health came
back, and mingling with the spent and feeble stream of life which
circulated languidly within you, swelled it again to a high and
rushing tide. I have watched you change almost from death, to
life, with eyes that turned blind with their eagerness and deep
affection. Do not tell me that you wish I had lost this; for it
has softened my heart to all mankind.'
 
'I did not mean that,' said Rose, weeping; 'I only wish you had
left here, that you might have turned to high and noble pursuits
again; to pursuits well worthy of you.'
 
'There is no pursuit more worthy of me: more worthy of the
highest nature that exists: than the struggle to win such a
heart as yours,' said the young man, taking her hand. 'Rose, my
own dear Rose! For years--for years--I have loved you; hoping to
win my way to fame, and then come proudly home and tell you it
had been pursued only for you to share; thinking, in my
daydreams, how I would remind you, in that happy moment, of the
many silent tokens I had given of a boy's attachment, and claim
your hand, as in redemption of some old mute contract that had
been sealed between us! That time has not arrived; but here,
with not fame won, and no young vision realised, I offer you the
heart so long your own, and stake my all upon the words with
which you greet the offer.'
 
'Your behaviour has ever been kind and noble.' said Rose,
mastering the emotions by which she was agitated. 'As you
believe that I am not insensible or ungrateful, so hear my
answer.'
 
'It is, that I may endeavour to deserve you; it is, dear Rose?'
 
'It is,' replied Rose, 'that you must endeavour to forget me; not
as your old and dearly-attached companion, for that would wound
me deeply; but, as the object of your love. Look into the world;
think how many hearts you would be proud to gain, are there.
Confide some other passion to me, if you will; I will be the
truest, warmest, and most faithful friend you have.'
 
There was a pause, during which, Rose, who had covered her face
with one hand, gave free vent to her tears. Harry still retained
the other.
 
'And your reasons, Rose,' he said, at length, in a low voice;
'your reasons for this decision?'
 
'You have a right to know them,' rejoined Rose. 'You can say
nothing to alter my resolution. It is a duty that I must
perform. I owe it, alike to others, and to myself.'
 
'To yourself?'
 
'Yes, Harry. I owe it to myself, that I, a friendless,
portionless, girl, with a blight upon my name, should not give
your friends reason to suspect that I had sordidly yielded to
your first passion, and fastened myself, a clog, on all your
hopes and projects. I owe it to you and yours, to prevent you
from opposing, in the warmth of your generous nature, this great
obstacle to your progress in the world.'
 
'If your inclinations chime with your sense of duty--' Harry
began.
 
'They do not,' replied Rose, colouring deeply.
 
'Then you return my love?' said Harry. 'Say but that, dear Rose;
say but that; and soften the bitterness of this hard
disappointment!'
 
'If I could have done so, without doing heavy wrong to him I
loved,' rejoined Rose, 'I could have--'
 
'Have received this declaration very differently?' said Harry.
'Do not conceal that from me, at least, Rose.'
 
'I could,' said Rose. 'Stay!' she added, disengaging her hand,
'why should we prolong this painful interview? Most painful to
me, and yet productive of lasting happiness, notwithstanding; for
it _will_ be happiness to know that I once held the high place in
your regard which I now occupy, and every triumph you achieve in
life will animate me with new fortitude and firmness. Farewell,
Harry! As we have met to-day, we meet no more; but in other
relations than those in which this conversation have placed us,
we may be long and happily entwined; and may every blessing that
the prayers of a true and earnest heart can call down from the
source of all truth and sincerity, cheer and prosper you!'
 
'Another word, Rose,' said Harry. 'Your reason in your own
words. From your own lips, let me hear it!'
 
'The prospect before you,' answered Rose, firmly, 'is a brilliant
one. All the honours to which great talents and powerful
connections can help men in public life, are in store for you.
But those connections are proud; and I will neither mingle with
such as may hold in scorn the mother who gave me life; nor bring
disgrace or failure on the son of her who has so well supplied
that mother's place. In a word,' said the young lady, turning
away, as her temporary firmness forsook her, 'there is a stain
upon my name, which the world visits on innocent heads. I will
carry it into no blood but my own; and the reproach shall rest
alone on me.'
 
'One word more, Rose. Dearest Rose! one more!' cried Harry,
throwing himself before her. 'If I had been less--less
fortunate, the world would call it--if some obscure and peaceful
life had been my destiny--if I had been poor, sick,
helpless--would you have turned from me then? Or has my probable
advancement to riches and honour, given this scruple birth?'
 
'Do not press me to reply,' answered Rose. 'The question does
not arise, and never will. It is unfair, almost unkind, to urge
it.'
 
'If your answer be what I almost dare to hope it is,' retorted
Harry, 'it will shed a gleam of happiness upon my lonely way, and
light the path before me. It is not an idle thing to do so much,
by the utterance of a few brief words, for one who loves you
beyond all else. Oh, Rose: in the name of my ardent and enduring
attachment; in the name of all I have suffered for you, and all
you doom me to undergo; answer me this one question!'
 
'Then, if your lot had been differently cast,' rejoined Rose; 'if
you had been even a little, but not so far, above me; if I could
have been a help and comfort to you in any humble scene of peace
and retirement, and not a blot and drawback in ambitious and
distinguished crowds; I should have been spared this trial. I
have every reason to be happy, very happy, now; but then, Harry,
I own I should have been happier.'
 
Busy recollections of old hopes, cherished as a girl, long ago,
crowded into the mind of Rose, while making this avowal; but they
brought tears with them, as old hopes will when they come back
withered; and they relieved her.
 
'I cannot help this weakness, and it makes my purpose stronger,'
said Rose, extending her hand. 'I must leave you now, indeed.'
 
'I ask one promise,' said Harry. 'Once, and only once more,--say
within a year, but it may be much sooner,--I may speak to you
again on this subject, for the last time.'
 
'Not to press me to alter my right determination,' replied Rose,
with a melancholy smile; 'it will be useless.'
 
'No,' said Harry; 'to hear you repeat it, if you will--finally
repeat it! I will lay at your feet, whatever of station of
fortune I may possess; and if you still adhere to your present
resolution, will not seek, by word or act, to change it.'
 
'Then let it be so,' rejoined Rose; 'it is but one pang the more,
and by that time I may be enabled to bear it better.'
 
She extended her hand again. But the young man caught her to his
bosom; and imprinting one kiss on her beautiful forehead, hurried
from the room.
 
 
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