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"A lance directed to my hands, which were folded on the

table before ht there: his words soon

explained the quest

"You have never been hed "Why, she can't he above seventeen or eighteen years

old, St John," said she

"I a glow

recollections were awakened by the allusion to e They all

saw the embarrass their eyes elsewhere than to e; but the

colder and sterner brother continued to gaze, till the trouble he

had excited forced out tears as well as colour

"Where did you last reside?" he now asked

"You are too inquisitive, St John," murmured Mary in a low voice;

but he leaned over the table and required an answer by a second fir look

"The name of the place where, and of the person hom I lived,

is my secret," I replied concisely

"Which, if you like, you have, in ht to keep, both