, 
to warn her, to save her. Is that true ?" 

" It is true." 

"Tempted and friendless, self abandoned to the evil im- 
pulse of the moment, this woman may have committed herself 
headlong to the act which she now vainly repents. She may 
long to make atonement, and may not know how to begin. 
All her energies may be crushed under the  and wordnetfear 



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of herself, out of which the truest  grows. Is such 
a woman as this all wicked, all vile ? I deny it ! She may 
have a noble nature; and she may show it nobly yet. Give 
her the opportunity she needs, and our poor fallen fellow- 
creature may take her place again among the best of us  
honored, blameless, happy, once more !" 

's eyes, resting eagerly on him while he was speak- 
ing, dropped again despondingly when he had done. 

" There is no such future as that," she answered, " for the 
woman whom I am thinking of. She has lost her opportu- 
nity. She has done with ." 

Julian gravely considered with himself for a moment. 

" Let us understand each other," he said. " She has com- 
mitted an act of deception to the