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They rowed that evening; the next caain Then the next, and the next, Cytherea always sitting in the stern with the tiller ropes in her hand The curves of her figure welded with those of the fragile boat in perfect continuation, as she girlishly yielded herself to its heaving and sinking, seeanic whole

Then Oas inclined to test his skill in paddling a canoe

Edward did not like canoes, and the issue was, that, having seen Owen on board, Springrove proposed to pull off after hi hi before a parade full of promenaders when there was a little swell on, and with the rudder unshipped in addition, he begged that Cytherea ht come with hi in the wake of her brother Thus passed the fifth evening on the water

But the sympathetic pair were thrown into still closer companionship, and much more exclusive connection

2 JULY THE TWENTY-NINTH It was a sad tie before his return from Budmouth to his father's house, previous to his departure for London

Graye had been requested by the architect to survey a plot of land nearly twenty miles off, which, with the journey to and fro, would occupy hi till late in the evening Cythereaof her brother's absence Mid-day found her restless and e out of thefor she scarcely kneho she scarcely knehat Half-past five o'clock carove's official day Two rove walked by

She endured her solitude for another half-hour, and then could endure no longer She had hoped--while affecting to fear--that Edould have found so, but it see herself she went out, when the farce of an accidentalwas repeated Edward ca, and, like the Great Duke Ferdinand in 'The Statue and the Bust'-'He looked at her as a lover can; She looked at hian' 'Shall we have a boat?' he said impulsively

How blissful it all is at first Perhaps, indeed, the only bliss in the course of love which can truly be called Eden-like is that which prevails immediately after doubt has ended and before reflection has set in--at the dawn of the enized by naiven birth to the consideration of what difficulties it tends to create; when on the man's part, the mistress appears to the hts, and softshadohen, as yet, she is known only as the wearer of one dress, which shares her own personality; as the stander in one special position, the giver of one bright particular glance, and the speaker of one tender sentence; when, on her part, she is timidly careful over what she says and does, lest she should be misconstrued or under-rated to the breadth of a shadow of a hair