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A tap came to the door, and the lady's-maid entered

'Miss Aldclyffe is awake,' she said; 'and she asked if you wereyet, miss' 'I'll run up to her,' said Cytherea, and flitted off with the utterance of the words 'Very fortunate this,' she thought; 'I shall see what is in the bag thisall the sooner' She took it up from the side table, went into Miss Aldclyffe's bedroom, pulled up the blinds, and looked round upon the lady in bed, calculating the minutes that , how are you? I alad you have co thisfactitiously

'Strange!' Cytherea thought; 'it seems as if she knew there was likely to be a letter for irl's face as she tre and found there an envelope addressed to her in Edward's handwriting; one he had written the day before, after the decision he had co, survey of his own, his father's, his cousin Adelaide's, and what he believed to be Cytherea's, position

The haughty mistress's soul sickened remorsefully within her when she saw suddenly appear upon the speaking countenance of the young lady before her a wan desolate look of agony

The master-sentences of Edward's letter were these: 'You speak truly That we never ret the past as much as you do yourself, it is hardly necessary for me to say'