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Guy Darrell gives way to an impulse, and quickly decides what he will do with it.
"Lionel Haughton," said Guy Darrell, regaining his young cousin's side, and speaking in a firm and measured voice, "I have to thank you for one very happy minute; the sight of a heart so fresh in the limpid purity of goodness is a luxury you cannot comprehend till you have come to my age; journeyed, like me, from Dan to Beersheba, and found all barren. Heed me: if you had been half-a-dozen years older, and this child for whom you plead had been a fair young woman, perhaps just as innocent, just as charming, -- more in peril, -- my benevolence would have lain as dormant as a stone. A young man's foolish sentiment for a pretty girl, -- as your true friend, I should have shrugged my shoulders and said, 'Beware! ' Had I been your father, I should have taken alarm and frowned. I should have seen the sickly romance which ends in dupes and deceivers.