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'Good-bye, Miss Graye--I hope you will succeed' Cytherea turned away towards the door The movement chanced to be one of her masterpieces It was precise: it had as much beauty as was compatible with precision, and as little coquettishness as was co looked over her shoulder at the other lady with a faint accent of reproach in her face Those who remember Greuze's 'Head of a Girl,' have an idea of Cytherea's look askance at the turning It is not for a man to tell fishers ofabout the highest possible average of takes within the year: but the action that tugs the hardest of all at an e which steals the bosom away and leaves the eyes behind

Now Miss Aldclyffe herself was no tyro at wheeling When Cytherea had closed the door upon her, she re to the gradually dying sound of thefootsteps She murmured to herself, 'It is al her in order to have a creature who could glide round my luxurious indolent body in that ht her fingers are upon one's head and neckWhat a silly o away so suddenly as that!' She rang the bell

'Ask the young lady who has just left ain,' she said to the attendant 'Quick! or she will be gone' Cytherea was now in the vestibule, thinking that if she had told her history, Miss Aldclyffe ht perhaps have taken her into the household; yet her history she particularly wished to conceal froer When she was recalled she turned back without feeling , she knew not what, told her she had not seen the last of Miss Aldclyffe

'You have somebody to refer me to, of course,' the lady said, when Cytherea had re-entered the room

'Yes: Mr Thorn, a solicitor at Aldbrickham' 'And are you a clever needlewoman?' 'I am considered to be' 'Then I think that at any rate I rite to Mr Thorn,' said Miss Aldclyffe, with a little sular; but my present maid leaves next Monday, and neither of the five I have already seen seem to do for me

Well, I rite to Mr Thorn, and if his reply is satisfactory, you shall hear from me It will be as well to set yourself in readiness to coain been watched out of the rooht at once communicate with Mr Thorn She indecisively played with the pen 'Suppose Mr