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JOSEPH AND HIS FRIEND.
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tears were real: then why not her smiles and caresses? Either she was horribly, incredibly false,—worse than he dared dream her to be,—or so fatally unconscious of her nature that nothing short of a miracle could ever enlighten her. One thing only was certain: there was now no confidence between them, and there might never be again.
He walked slowly forth from the house, seeing nothing, and unconscious whither his feet were leading him.
