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Cytherea awoke, quiet in mind and refreshed A conclusion to re Miss Aldclyffe gone, she dressed herself and sat down at the rite an answer to Edward's letter, and an account of her arrival at Knapwater to Owen The dis pictures that Miss Aldclyffe had placed before her the preceding evening, the later terrors of the night, were now but as shadows of shadows, and she s Edward's letter was the great consoler, the effect of each word upon hi enacted in her own face as she wrote it

She felt how much she would like to share his trouble--hoell she could endure poverty with him--and wondered what his trouble was

But all would be explained at last, she knew

At the appointed ti, with the contradictoriness common in people, to perforation, what as a duty was simply intolerable

Miss Aldclyffe was already out of bed The bright penetrating light ofmade a vast difference in the elder lady's behaviour to her dependent; the day, which had restored Cytherea's judgh practical reasons forbade her regretting that she had secured such a companionable creature to read, talk, or play to her whenever her whim required, she was inwardly vexed at the extent to which she had indulged in the wo way to e aristocratically at the toilet table, see scarcely conscious of Cytherea's presence in the roo her, was the passionate creature who had asked for kisses a few hours before

It is both painful and satisfactory to think how often these antitheses are to be observed in the individualwith faces lit up by so--the fiery jets have all gone out, and nothing confronts us but a few crinkled pipes and sooty ork, hardly even recalling the outline of the blazing picture that arrested our eyes before bedtime

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Probably nine-tenths of the gushing letters of indiscreet confession are written after nine or ten o'clock in the evening, and sent off before day returns to leer invidiously upon thelance as we rise in the -time