text: Cynthia will run no risk of encountering any unkindness from me . " I began to stammer feebly that I hoped she hadn 't thought ” But again she stopped me , and her words were so unexpected that they quite drove Cynthia , and her troubles , out of my mind .
  
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  I stated confidently , " I will be exceedingly unkind to Cynthia . "