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"Oft expectation fails, and most oft there Where most it promises; and oft it hits Where Hope is coldest, and Despair most sits." All's Well that Ends Well.
When I told Mr. Gryce I only waited for the determination of one fact, to feel justified in throwing the case unreservedly into his hands, I alluded to the proving or disproving of the supposition that Henry Clavering had been a guest at the same watering-place with Eleanore Leavenworth the summer before.