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1 MARCH THE SIXTH The next ame was made Cytherea, under cover of a thick veil, hired a conveyance and drove to within a mile or so of Carriford It ith a renewed sense of depression that she saw again the objects which had beco her sojourn under Miss Aldclyffe's roof--the outline of the hills, the meadow streams, the old park trees She hastened by a lonely path to the rectory-house, and asked if Mr

Raunhah a solitary bachelor, was as gallant and courteous to womankind as an ancient Iberian; and, moreover, he was Cytherea's friend in particular, to an extent far greater than she had ever sur his relative, Miss Aldclyffe, except on parishcalled upon by Miss Aldclyffe, Cytherea had learnt very little of him whilst she lived at Knapwater The relationship was on the impecunious paternal side, and for this branch of her family the lady of the estate had never evincedback upon our line of descent it is an instinct with us to feel that all our vitality was drawn froe in the chain

Since the death of the old captain, the rector's bearing in Knapwater House had been aler, a circuret This polite indifference was so frigid on both sides that the rector did not concern hireat deal in a rector; and she did not take the trouble to think his serreat deal e, his hair was as white as snow, contrasting strangely with the redness of his skin, which was as fresh and healthy as a lad's Cytherea's bright eyes,up at hi away many of the saturnine hu the hours of a solitary life; in this case, however, to supplant the nature which accoe of feeling towards her that passion to which his dignified self-respect would not give its true naht

He received her kindly; but she was not disposed to be frank with hiood taste and good nature made no comment whatever upon her request to be allowed to see the Chronicle for the year before the last He placed the papers before her on his study table, with a tireat as her own, and then left her entirely to herself