`` Very plainly indeed , '' answered Tackleton . `` As if I meant it ? '' `` Very much as if you meant it . '' `` I sat upon that hearth , last night , all night , '' exclaimed the Carrier . `` On the spot where she has often sat beside me , with her sweet face looking into mine . I called up her whole life day by day . I had her dear self , in its every passage , in review before me . And , upon my soul , she is innocent , if there is One to judge the innocent and guilty ! '' Staunch Cricket on the Hearth ! Loyal Household Fairies ! `` Passion and distrust have left me ! '' said the Carrier ; `` and nothing but my grief remains . In an unhappy moment some old lover , better suited to her tastes and years than I , forsaken , perhaps , for me , against her will , returned . In an unhappy moment , taken by surprise , and wanting time to think of what she did , she made herself a party to his treachery by concealing it . Last night she saw him , in the interview we witnessed . It was wrong . But , otherwise than this , she is innocent , if there is truth on earth ! '' `` If that is your opinion -- '' Tackleton began . `` So , let her go ! '' pursued the Carrier .
`` Go , with my blessing for the many happy hours she has given me , and my forgiveness XXXXX any pang she has caused me .
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