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en them?”
Rachael shook her head in silence.
“He fell into suspicion” said Louisa“with his fellow-weavers
because he had made a promise not to be one of them. I think it
must have been to you that he made that promise. Might I ask you
why he made it?”
Rachael burst into tears. “I didn’t seek it of himpoor ladI
prayed him to avoid trouble for his own goodlittle thinking he’d
come to it through me. But I know he’d die a hundred deathsere
ever he’d break his word. I know that of him well.”
Stephen had remained quietly attentivein his usual thoughtful
attitudewith his hand at his chin. He now spoke in a voice rather
less steady than usual.
“No oneexcepting myselncan ever know what honouran
what loveand respectI bear to Rachaelor wi’ what cause. When
I passed that promessI towd her trueshe were th’ Angel o’ my
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life. ’Twere a solemn promess. ’Tis gone fro’ mefor ever.”
Louisa turned her head to himand bent it with a deference
that was new in her. She looked from him to Rachaeland her
features softened. “What will you do?” she asked him. And her
voice had softened too.
“Weelma’am” said Stephenmaking the best of itwith a
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