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1 FROM SEPTEMBER THE TWENTY-FIRST TO THE MIDDLE OF NOVEMBER The foreure within Cytherea's horizon, exclusive of the inmates of Knapwater House, was now the steward, Mr Manston It was impossible that they should live within a quarter of a ed in the sa at some spot or another, twice or thrice a week On Sundays, in her pehen by chance she turned her head, Cytherea found his eyes waiting desirously for a gliely, the eyes of Miss Aldclyffe furtively resting on hi out of church he frequently walked beside Cytherea till she reached the gate at which residents in the House turned into the shrubbery By degrees a conjecture grew to a certainty She knew that he loved her
But a strange fact was connected with the developest efforts to subdue, or at least to hide, the weakness, and as it sometimes see eyes Hence she found that not one of his encounters with her was anything more than the result of pure accident He ht her: the words he had whispered at their first intervie proved theuarded i held him back, bound his impulse down, but she saw that it was neither pride of his person, nor fear that she would refuse hily resolved to take should he think fit to declare himself She was interested in hiht have been in so panther or leopard--for some undefinable reason she shrank from him, even whilst she admired
The keynote of her nature, a ware happily writes it, which Manston had so directly pounced upon at their very first interview, gave her now a tre in some way in his power
The state ofand inexperienced woman; and perhaps the circumstance which, e noas that he had taken no notice of the receipt of her letter, stating that she discarded him It was plain then, she said, that he did not care deeply for her, and she thereupon could not quite leave off caring deeply for hienium mulierum, Nolunt ubi velis, ubi nolis cupiunt ultro' The an its course The inhabitants of the village of Carriford greeary of supposing that Miss Aldclyffe was going to marry her steward Nehispers arose and becah they did not reach Miss Aldclyffe's ears) to the effect that the steas deeply in love with Cytherea Graye Indeed, the fact beca left to say about it except that their e would be an excellent one for both;--for her in point of comfort--and for him in point of love