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During the telling of a secret, which was involuntarily accompanied by a sudden minute start, and ecstatic pressure of the listener's arree of inti one who possessed her affections

She suddenly assuress of the present entertainlance was directed out of the

Why the particulars of a young lady's presence at a veryinto the oblivion which their intrinsic insignificance would naturally have involved--why they were reh after years--was sily stood, as it were, upon the extree of a tract in her life, in which the real ht had never been known It was the last hour of experience she ever enjoyed with a e of that labyrinth into which she stepped i its reater portion of twenty-nine subsequentof brown stone, and through one of the s could be seen from the interior of the room the housetops and chimneys of the adjacent street, and also the upper part of a neighbouring church spire, now in course of completion under the superintendence of Miss Graye's father, the architect to the work

That the top of this spire should be visible fro eyes had discovered with so the scene that was being enacted about its airy su against the blue sky, and upon this stood five men--four in clothes as white as the new erection close beneath their hands, the fifth in the ordinary dark suit of a gentle-men in white were three masons and a mason's labourer The fifthdirections as it see as far as the narrow footway allowed, stood perfectly still

The picture thus presented to a spectator in the Town Hall was curious and striking It was an illuin of the , the keen-edged shadiness of which emphasized by contrast the softness of the objects enclosed

The height of the spire was about one hundred and twenty feet, and the five ed thereon seemed entirely res They appeared little larger than pigeons, and made their tiny movements with a soft, spirit-like silentness One idea above all others was conveyed to the round by their aspect, namely, concentration of purpose: that they were indifferent to--even unconscious of--the distracted world beneath them, and all that