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Then one of theain he stood motionless, with attention to the operations of the others He appeared to be lost in reflection, and had directed his face towards a new stone they were lifting

'Why does he stand like that?' the young lady thought at length--up to that moment as listless and careless as one of the ancient Tarentines, who, on such an afternoon as this, watched from the Theatre the entry into their Harbour of a power that overturned the State

She moved herself uneasily 'I wish he would co at the skybacked picture 'It is so dangerous to be absent- the words her father indecisively laid hold of one of the scaffold-poles, as if to test its strength, then let it go and stepped back In stepping, his foot slipped An instant of doubling forward and sideways, and he reeled off into the air, ihter rose to her feet by a convulsive asped for breath She could utter no sound One by one the people about her, unconscious of what had happened, turned their heads, and inquiry and alarht of the poor child A er, and she fell to the floor

The next i carried froe vehicle across the pavement to the steps of her own house by her brother and an older man Recollection of what had passed evolved itself an instant later, and just as they entered the door--through which another and sadder burden had been carried but a few instants before--her eyes caught sight of the south-western sky, and, without heeding, sahite sunlight shining in shaft-like lines from a rift in a slaty cloud Emotions will attach then in essence these scenes s and wires Even after that tiht less vividly to Cytherea's ht strea in shaft-like lines

4 OCTOBER THE NINETEENTH When death enters a house, an element of sadness and an element of horror accompany it Sadness, from the death itself: horror, fronedly labour to introduce

The funeral had taken place Depressed, yet resolved in his demeanour, Owen Graye sat before his father's private escritoire, engaged in turning out and unfolding a heterogeneous collection of papers--forbidding and inharmonious to the eye at all tirief Laminae of white paper tied with tere indiscriminately interes--these with blue foolscap wrapped round with crude red tape