"In the meanwhile, have I nothing else to say? have I no travelling
adventures to relate? You insist on hearing of everything that happens
to me; and you are to have your own way before we are married, as well
as after. My sweet Carmina, your willing slave has something more
serious than common travelling adventures to relate--he has a
confession to make. In plain words, I have been practising my
profession again, in the city of Montreal!
"I wonder whether you will forgive me, when you are informed of the
circumstances? It is a sad little story; but I am vain enough to think
that my part in it will interest you. I have been a vain man, since
that brightest and best of all possible days when you first made _your_
confession--when you said that you loved me.
"Look back in my letter, and you will see Mr. Morphew mentioned as a
new friend of mine, in Canada. I became acquainted with him through a
letter of introduction, given to me by Benjulia.
"Say nothing to anybody of what I am now going to tell you--and be
especially careful, if you happen to see him, to keep Benjulia in the
dark. I sincerely hope you will not see him. He is a hard-hearted
man--and he might say something which would distress you, if he knew of
the result which has followed his opening to me the door of his
friend's house.
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