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married, as I told you; but she was to marry to please her friends, and

not herself She had been in the habit of watching Kingsley go past

her ; and the way she blushed, and went through the other little

motions, convinces lassy river runs at present"

"Kingsley is a lucky fellow Will the discarded suitor have no voice in

the ive her up at a word?"

Orhed

"Ah! to be sure; ill the count say? And, judging fros

I've heard, I should say he is violently in love with her"

"Count who?" asked Rochester "Or has he, like his ladylove, no other

naentleman as so nearly blessed for life,

andlistlessly back, only half intent upon his

answer, as he watched the fire; but now he sprang sharply up, and stared

Ormiston full in the face

"Count what did you say?" was his eager question, while his eyes, er than his voice, strove to read the reply before it was repeated

"Count L'Estrange You know him, my lord?" said Oreabout his face "I have not said that! So his nairl's beauty"