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"I SHOULD have preferred to have waited, Miss Ballantyne, until you had become more settled in your new home and surroundings, before telling you what you ask; but it might unduly excite your imagination, and possibly your suspicion, if I kept back what it is only right, and in accordance with the expressed wish of your uncle, that you should know."
How was it, as Septimus Dorset thus commenced, that a feeling of repulsion arose in the mind of Beatrice?--one of those mysterious monitions which sometimes come to us in life.