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grufflie,--"what am I to write?" "To tell him I have this Key," I made Answer faltering. "That Key!" cried he. "Yes, the Key of his Algum-wood Casket, which I knew not I had, and which I think he must miss dailie." He lookt at me with the utmost Impatience. "And is that alle?" he sayd. "Yes, alle," I sayd trembling. "And have you nothing more to tell him?" sayd he. "No--" after a Pause, I replyed. _Rose's_ Countenance fell. "Then you must ask some one else to write for you, Mrs. _Milton,"_ burste forthe _Roger Agnew_, "unless you choose to write for yourself. I have neither Part nor Lot in it." I burste forthe into Teares. --"No, _Rose_, no," repeated Mr. _Agnew_, putting aside his Wife, who woulde have interceded for me,--"her Teares have noe Effect on me now--they proceed, not from a contrite Heart, they are the Tears of a Child that cannot brook to be chidden for the Waywardnesse in which it persists." "You doe me Wrong everie Way," I sayd; "I came to you willing and desirous to doe what you yourselfe woulde, this Morning, have had me doe." "But in how strange a Way!" cried he. "At a Time when anie Renewal of your Intercourse requires to be conducted with the utmost Delicacy, and even with more Shew of Concession on your Part than, an Hour ago, I should have deemed needfulle,--to propose an abrupt, trivial Communication about an old Key!" "It needed not to have been abrupt," I sayd, "nor yet trivial; for I meant it to have beene exprest kindlie." "You said not that before," answered he. "Because you gave me not Time.--Because you chid me and frightened me." He stood silent, some While, upon this; grave, yet softer, and mechanicallie playing with the Key, which he had taken from my Hand. _Rose_ looking in his Face anxiouslie. At lengthe, to disturbe his Reverie, she playfulle tooke it from him, saying, in School-girl Phrase, "This is the Key of the Kingdom!" "Of the Kingdom of Heaven, it mighte be!" exclaimed _Roger_, "if we knew how to use it arighte! If we knew but how to fit it to the Wards of _Milton's_ Heart!--there's the Difficultie. . . . a greater one, poor _Moll_, than you know; for hitherto, alle the Reluctance has been on your Part. But now . . ." "What now?" I anxiouslie askt. "We were talking of you but as you rejoyned us," sayd Mr. _Agnew_, "and I was telling _Rose_ that hithertoe I had considered the onlie Obstacle to a Reunion arose from a false Impr
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