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'A letter I received froh what Miss Graye's mind is' 'You think she still loves you? O yes, of course you do--all n no further than the first speech

'I should be interested in knohat reason?' she said, with sarcastic archness

Edward felt he was allowing her to do, in fractional parts, what he rebelled against when regarding it as a whole; but the fact that his antagonist had the presence of a queen, and features only in the early evening of their beauty, was not without its influence upon a keenly conscioushad charnant Puritan visitors He again answered her honestly

'The best of reasons--the tone of her letter' 'Pooh, Mr Springrove!' 'Not at all, Miss Aldclyffe! Miss Graye desired that we should be strangers to each other for the simple practical reason that intimacy could only make wretched complications worse, not from lack of love--love is only suppressed' 'Don't you know yet, that in thus putting aside a ives her a kindness of tone which is often mistaken for suppressed love?' said Miss Aldclyffe, with soft insidiousness

This was a translation of the aht of; and he was too ingenuous not to own it

'I had never thought of it,' he said

'And don't believe it?' 'Not unless there was some other evidence to support the view' She paused a ly-'My intention hat I did not drea to you--my intention was to try to induce you to fulfil your proh partly) I love Cytherea Graye with all my soul, and I want to see her happy evenher name into the affair at all, but I am driven to say that she wrote that letter of dismissal to you--for it was a eements can be broken as easily as they can be made She wrote it because she loved anotherhim, but none the less deeply' 'Who?' 'Mr Manston' 'Good--! I can't listen to you for an instant, madam; why, she hadn't seen him!' 'She had; he came here the day before she wrote to you; and I could prove to you, if it orth while, that on that day she went voluntarily to his house, though not artfully or bla; that no sooner did she leave hi she should not see you again, entirely because she had seen him and fallen desperately in love with hiirl to do, considering that he's the handsomest man in the county