`` A younger woman would probably understand him better . And I feel that the care of this big place is too much for me . I would prefer to go to my own old home . If you had married long ago , as you should , Walter , James would have had a mother and some cousins to play with . I have always been of this opinion . '' Uncle Walter frowned and got up . `` Just because one woman played you false is no good reason for spoiling your life , '' went on Aunt Augusta severely . `` I have kept silence all these years but now I am going to speak -- and speak plainly . You should marry , Walter . You are young enough yet and you owe it to your name . '' `` Listen , Augusta , '' said Uncle Walter sternly . `` I loved a woman once . I believed she loved me . She sent me back my ring one day and with it a message saying she had ceased to care for me and bidding me never to try to look upon her face again . Well , I have obeyed her , that is all . '' `` There was something strange about all that , Walter . The life she has since led proves that . So you should not let it embitter you against all women . '' `` I have n't . It 's nonsense to say I 'm a woman-hater , Augusta .
But that experience has robbed me XXXXX the power to care for another woman . ''
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