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Yet it was all unconsciously said in words which betrayed a lingering tenderness of love at every unguarded turn Like Beatrice accusing Dante fro who contemned such mere eye-sensuousness, she betrayed at every point a pretty woave her old lover hints for excusing himself at each fresh indictment

This done, Cytherea, still in a practical er like Mr Manston to influence her as he had done that evening What right on earth had he to suggest so suddenly that she ht meet hiiven much to be able to annihilate the ascendency he had obtained over her during that extraordinary interval ofable to endure the notion of his living a , she took her pen and wrote to him also:-'KNAPWATER HOUSE September 20th

'I find I cannot meet you at seven o'clock by the waterfall as I proetful of realities

'C GRAYE' A great states lady acts, and thinks several times When, a fewcontaining one of the letters, and a er with the other, she, for the first time, asked herself the question whether she had acted very wisely in writing to either of the two men who had so influenced her