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You have something to tell me
of Mr. Willoughby?
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When I quitted Barton last ...
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No, I must go further back.
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No doubt ...
No doubt ...
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... Mrs. Jennings has appraised you
of certain events in my past.
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The sad outcome of my connection
with a young woman named Eliza.
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What is not commonly known -
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- is that 20 years ago,
before she died. Eliza bore a child.
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The father. whoever he was.
abandoned them.
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As Eliza lay dying, she begged me
to look after the child.
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I had failed her in ever other way,
I could not refuse her now.
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I placed the child, Beth,
with a family in the country -
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- where I knew she would be looked
after. I saw her whenever I could.
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She grew up so headstrong, -
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- and, God forgive me,
I allowed her too much freedom.
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Almost a year ago she disappeared.
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I instigated a search, but for
eight months I imagined the worst.
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On the day of the Delaford picnic,
I received the first news of her.
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She was ... with child.
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And the blackguard who had left her
with no hint of his whereabouts ...
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Do you mean Willoughby?