Did you never suspect my disguise , Amy ? '' `` No . Helen used to say that she felt something was wrong , but I never did till the other night . '' `` Did n't I do that well ? I give you my word it was all done on the spur of the minute . I meant to speak soon , but had not decided how , when you came out so sweetly with that confounded old cloak , of which I 'd no more need than an African has of a blanket . Then a scene I 'd read in a novel came into my head , and I just repeated it con amore . Was I very pathetic and tragical . Amy ? '' `` I thought so then . It strikes me as ridiculous now , and I ca n't help feeling sorry that I wasted so much pity on a man who -- '' `` Loves you with all his heart and soul . Did you cry and grieve over me , dear little tender thing ? and do you think now that I am a heartless fellow , bent only on amusing myself at the expense of others ? It 's not so ; and you shall see how true and good and steady I can be when I have any one to love and care for me . I 've been alone so long it 's new and beautiful to be petted , confided in , and looked up to by an angel like you . '' He was in earnest now ; she felt it , and her anger melted away like dew before the sun . `` Poor boy ! You will go home with us now , and let us take care of you in quiet England . You 'll play no more pranks , but go soberly to work and do something that shall make me proud to be your cousin , wo n't you ? '' `` If you 'll change ` cousin ' to ` wife ' I 'll be and do whatever you please .
XXXXX , when I was a poor , dying , Catholic foreigner you loved me and would have married me in spite of everything .
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