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"You can't? Why can't you?"
"You see, he--well, he--he made me promise I wouldn't."
The wife looked him over, and said, very slowly:
"
Made--you--promise? Edward, what do you tell me that for?"
Mary, do you think I would lie?"
"
She was troubled and silent for a moment, then she laid her hand within
his and said:
"No . . . no. We have wandered far enough from our bearings--God spare
us that! In all your life you have never uttered a lie. But now--now
that the foundations of things seem to be crumbling from under us,
we--we--" She lost her voice for a moment, then said, brokenly, "Lead us
not into temptation. . . I think you made the promise, Edward. Let it
rest so. Let us keep away from that ground. Now--that is all gone by;
let us he happy again; it is no time for clouds."
Edward found it something of an effort to comply, for his mind kept
wandering--trying to remember what the service was that he had done
Goodson.
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