text:  How could it be dreamed by a person of sense that a brilliant young man of merits various and eminent in spite of his baseness to whom for nearly two years this young woman had given her whole confiding love might be dismissed from a heart like hers on the earliest summons of pride simply because she herself had been dismissed from _his_ or seemed to have been dismissed on a summons of mercenary calculation? Look! now that she is relieved from the weight of an unconfidential presence she has sat for two hours with her head buried in her hands