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She restored the letters to their hiding-place, scanned anew the other letters and ain no fresh infor in its former condition

Her mind was ill at ease More than ever she wished that she had never seen Manston Where the person suspected of reat physical and intellectual attractions, the ruity adds an extra shudder to dread Theterrified Anne as it had terrified Cytherea; for with all the woman Anne's faults, she had not descended to such depths of depravity as to willingly participate in cri displaced till her arrival at Knapwater put retreat out of the question, and had looked upon personation si in poverty and alone, after a bustling and soay mansion

'Non illa colo calathisve Minervae Foemineas assueta rove had by this ti out important results

The rector was restless and full ofIt was plain, even to the servants about hirove's communication wore a deeper coistrate forarrived at the stage of existence in which the difficult intellectual feat of suspending one's judg it in practice, though not without the penalty of watchful effort

It was not till the afternoon that he determined to call on his relative, Miss Aldclyffe, and cautiously probe her knowledge of the subject occupying hihly Cytherea, he kneas still beloved by this solitary woman Miss Aldclyffe hadher former companion, and there was ever a sadness in her tone when the young lady's name was mentioned, which showed that from whatever cause the elder Cytherea's renunciation of her favourite and namesake proceeded, it was not from indifference to her fate

'Have you ever had any reason for supposing your steward anything but an upright htest Have you?' said she reservedly

'Well--I have' 'What is it?' 'I can say nothing plainly, because nothing is proved But ' 'Do you mean that he was rather cool towards his hen they were first married, and that it was unfair in him to leave her? I knoas; but I think his recent conduct towards her has alect' He looked Miss Aldclyffe full in the face It was plain that she spoke honestly She had not the slightest notion that the woht be other than Mrs Manston--ht be behind