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1 FROM THE TWENTY-SECOND TO THE TWENTY-SEVENTH OF JULY But things are not what they seerove had made its appearance in Cytherea's boso attributes of a first experience, not succeeding to or displacing other eround; as when gazing just after sunset at the pale blue sky we see a star co words, 'Don't forget h she thought their i with the thes of love and faithfulness,--ostensibly entertaining such s only as fables ith to pass the ti, for detached instants, a possibility of their deeper truth And thus, for hours after he had left her, her reason flirted with her fancy as a kitten will sport with a dove, pleasantly and s its cruel and unyielding nature at crises

To turn now to the h which this story ht round a circuht in itself, took up a relevant and important position between the past and the future of the persons herein concerned

At breakfast tiain seen the post her an answer to the advertisement, as she had fully expected he would do, Owen entered the roo her, 'you have not been alarrove told you what I had done, and you found there was no train?' 'Yes, it was all clear But what is the laone off nowCytherea, I hope you like Springrove Springrove's a nice fellow, you know' 'Yes I think he is, except that--' 'It happened just to the purpose that I should meet him there, didn't it? And when I reached the station and learnt that I could not get on by train my foot seemed better I started off to walk ho a path beside the railway It then struckto-day if I walked and aggravated the bothering foot, so I looked for a place to sleep at There was no available village or inn, and I eventually got the keeper of a gate-house, where a lane crossed the line, to take me in' They proceeded with their breakfast Owen yawned