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`` With your life , if it were necessary , '' replied I. `` I believe it , '' said she . `` Then can you leave the shop and come to me to-morrow evening ? '' `` Yes , if you will send your maid for me , saying that you are not well . '' `` I will , at eight o'clock . Farewell , then , till to-morrow . '' My vanity receives a desperate wound , but my heart remains unscathed -- An anomaly in woman , one who despises beauty . The next evening I left Timothy in charge , and repaired to her house ; it was very respectable in outward appearance , as well as its furniture .