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'And your secret e was, then, the true and only reason for that backwardness regarding the courtship of Cytherea, which, they tell e; not your indifference to her attractions' Her voice had a tone of conviction in it, as well as of inquiry; but none of jealousy

'Yes,' he said; 'and not a dishonourable one What held --a sense of ive me credit for' The latter words were spoken with a mien and tone of pride

Miss Aldclyffe preserved silence

'And now,' he went on, 'I may as well say a word in vindication ofyou My actualto your order that I should send for my late wife, and live with her, was not the s reater comforts than any I have enjoyed before, but this unquenchable passion for Cytherea Though I saw the weakness, folly, and even wickedness of it continually, it still forced me to try to continue near her, even as the husband of another woreat obstacle toMiss Graye's love,' he went on

'Yes, Edward Springrove,' she said quietly 'I know it, I did once want to see theht quarrel, and it will soon be ain, unless--' she spoke as if she had only half attended to Manston's last stateed to be married to somebody else,' said the steward

'Pooh!' said she, 'youto help us; he's now come home to break it off' 'He must not break it off,' said Manston, firmly and cal herself, she said haughtily, 'Well, that's your affair, not hdishonourable to bring about such a result' 'But it must be _ into her eyes, as if he saw there the whole panoras to portray by written words is that peculiar mixture ofbeen sedulously engaged in establishing another's position, she suddenly suspects hi her own It was thus that Miss Aldclyffe looked at the steward