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But very poor food to a lover is intelligence of adefinitely He said he believed there had been some prior flirtation between Cytherea and her cousin, an officer of the line, two or three years before Graye met her, which had suddenly been ter lady's travelling on the Continent with her parents the whole of the ensuing summer, on account of delicate health Eventually Huntway said that circumstances had rendered Graye's attachment more hopeless still

Cytherea's e fortune and estates in the west of England by the rapid fall of so lives This had caused their removal from the small house in Bloomsbury, and, as it appeared, a renunciation of their old friends in that quarter

Young Graye concluded that his Cytherea had forgotten hiet her

2 FROM 1843 TO 1861 Eight years later, feeling lonely and depressed--a man without relatives, withlady of a different kind, fairly endoithvery deeply for another woman after the loss of Cytherea, it was an absolute is of the earth become more dear as they elude pursuit; but with some natures utter elusion is the one special event which willlady and Graye were married That he did not, first or last, love his wife as he should have done, was known to all; but fe that his un at the loss of its first idol

His character to some extent deteriorated, as e sense of disappointh naturally of a gentle and pleasant disposition, he grew to be not so tenderly regarded by his acquaintances as it is the lot of souine receptivity of his early life developed by degrees aprospects drawn from baseless hope he was the victim of indescribable depression The practical issue of such a condition was iinally almost an unconscious improvidence, for every debt incurred had been ious exactness from the treasures of expectation before mentioned But as years revolved, the same course was continued froroove when it has been found to lead to disaster