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"Sole partner, and sole part of all these joys, / Dearer thyself than all. " -- _Milton._
It cost Garth a severe struggle to leave his betrothed and go back to / his business at Hepshaw; but his presence was imperatively needed at / the quarry, and Queenie, with her usual unselfishness and good sense, / was the first to perceive the necessity.