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So place in Springrove'sher statement, but before she had reached the end, his eyes were clear, and directed upon her

'I don't accept your conditions of release,' he said

'They are not conditions exactly' 'Well, whatever they are not, they are very uncalled-for remarks' 'Not at all--the houses have been burnt by your faence' 'I don't refer to the houses--you have of course the best of all rights to speak of that ht at all to volunteer opinions and wishes upon a very delicate subject, which concerns no living beings but Miss Graye, Miss Hinton, and ood many others in her position, had plainly not realized that a son of her tenant and inferior could have become an educated man, who had learnt to feel his individuality, to view society frorade in Carriford parish, and that hence he had all a developed man's unorthodox opinion about the subordination of classes And fully conscious of the labyrinth into which he had wandered between his wish to behave honourably in the dileement to his cousin Adelaide and the intensity of his love for Cytherea, Springrove was additionally sensitive to any allusion to the case

He had spoken to Miss Aldclyffe with considerable warmth

And Miss Aldclyffe was not a wo to a mood of defiance It seemed as if she were prepared to put up with a cold refusal, but that her haughtiness resented a criticis in a rebuke

By this, Manston's discreditable object, which had been made hers by co herself into the work

A fiery man in such a case would have relinquished persuasion and tried palpable force A fiery woy; and in her obstinacy, and to sustain herself as mistress, she descended to an action thehour

'I don't quite see, Mr Springrove,' she said, 'that I aer I have known your faood many years, and I know Miss Graye particularly well, and her state of ard to this matter' Perplexed love makes us credulous and curious as old woet at Cytherea's state of erous a medium