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'County Hospital!' said Miss Aldclyffe; 'why, it is only another naical cases at any rate Certainly if anything about your body is snapt in two they do join you together in a fashion, but 'tis so askew and ugly, that youand anxious s and arms of poor people were cut off at a moment's notice, especially in cases where the restorative treat and tedious

'You knoilling I am to help you, Cytherea,' she added reproachfully 'You know it Why are you so obstinate then? Why do you selfishly bar the clear, honourable, and only sisterly path which leads out of this difficulty? I cannot, on my conscience, countenance you; no, I cannot' Manston once more repeated his offer; and once ns of an internal struggle Manston's eye sparkled; he saw for the hundredth time in his life, that perseverance, if only systematic, was irresistible by wo to Budmouth three days later, she found to her surprise that the steward had been there, had introduced himself, and had seen her brother A few delicacies had been brought him also by the same hand Owen spoke in warm terms of Manston and his free and uncere of any person, of any kind, whose presence had served to help away the tedious hours of a long day, and who had, moreover, shown that sort of consideration for hi basket i upon all invalids--and which he so seldom experienced except from the hands of his sister

How should he perceive, ahtier ain the steward met her at Carriford Road Station on her return journey Instead of being frigid as at the for at the saht, and murmured brokenly her thanks for what he had done The saht see her ho his kindness to Owen a conditional kindness, and had hastened to efface all recollection of it 'Though I let my offer on her brother's--raciousness to ly in the course of their walk, 'I could not conscientiously adhere to my statement; it was said with all the impulsive selfishness of love Whether you choose to have me, or whether you don't, I love you too devotedly to be anything but kind to your brotherMiss Graye, Cytherea, I will do anything,' he continued earnestly, 'to give you pleasure--indeed I will' She saw on the one hand her poor andfrom his illness and troubles by the disinterested kindness of the , wholly by reason of her self-enforced poverty To marry this man was obviously the course of common sense, to refuse him was impolitic temerity There was reason in this But there was ratitude and her impulse to be kind