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The want of his ani influence appeared to be peculiarly felt

one day that he had been summoned to Millcote on business, and was

not likely to return till late The afternoon et: a walk the

party had proposed to take to see a gipsy camp, lately pitched on a

coentleether with the

younger ladies, were playing billiards in the billiard-rooa repelled, by supercilious taciturnity,

some efforts of Mrs Dent and Mrs Eshton to draw her into

conversation, had first murmured over so fetched a novel frohty listlessness on a sofa, and

prepared to beguile, by the spell of fiction, the tedious hours of

absence The room and the house were silent: only now and then the

merriment of the billiard-players was heard froiven warning of

the hour to dress for dinner, when little Adele, who knelt by -room -seat, suddenly exclaimed "Voile, Monsieur Rochester, qui revient!"

I turned, and Miss Ingram darted forwards from her sofa: the