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1 FROM THE THIRD TO THE NINETEENTH OF SEPTEMBER Miss Aldclyffe's tenderness towards Cytherea, between the hours of her irascibility, increased till it beca fondness Like Nature in the tropics, with her hurricanes and the subsequent luxuriant vegetation effacing their ravages, Miss Aldclyffe coenerosity afterwards She seemed to be co woman whose modesty was absolutely unimpaired, and whose artlessness was as perfect as was compatible with the complexity necessary to produce the due charm of womanhood

Cytherea, on her part, perceived with honest satisfaction that her influence for good over Miss Aldclyffe was considerable Ideas and habits peculiar to the younger, which the elder lady had originally irew in course of ti anda verse fro

Yet try to force her sympathies as much as she would, Cytherea could feel no more than thankful for this, even if she always felt asover the past life of her coht already thrown upon it only seemed to render still darker the unpenetrated re which was scarcely too slight to be called dread

She would have infinitely preferred to be treated distantly, as the eable nature--like a fountain, always herself, yet always another That a crime of any deep dye had ever been perpetrated or participated in by her na of the lady's youth seeht

So so confidence, but reflection invariably restrained her

Cytherea hoped that such a confidence would co a

But Miss Aldclyffe's reticence concerning her past was not ih she never disclosed the one fact of her knowledge that the love-suit between Miss Aldclyffe and her father terenuousness on subjects not set down for special guard had enabled Miss Aldclyffe to worment, every detail of her father's history Cytherea sa deeply Miss Aldclyffe sympathized--and it compensated her, to some extent, for the hasty resentments of other times

Thus uncertainly she lived on It was perceived by the servants of the House that some secret bond of connection existed between Miss Aldclyffe and her companion But they oman and woman, not woman and man, the facts were ethereal and refined, and so they could not be worked up into a taking story Whether, as old critics disputed, a supernatural odly machinery is decidedly necessary to a scandal