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For a nant, but when he said to her kindly: "Would Helen he pleased?" her tears started at once, and she atte Sybil Grandon as the first cause of the ambition for which she hated herself

"She had been held up asto who--"she the one whoo beyond her, I yielded to the temptation, and exulted to see how far she was left behind Besides that," she continued, "is it no gratification, think you, to let Wilford's proud irl, whom ordinarily they would despise, stand where they cannot come, and even dictate to the--I know it is wicked--but I rather like the excite as I am with these people I shall never be any better Mark Ray, you don't knohat it is to be surrounded by a set who care for nothing but fashion and display, and how they may outdo each other I hate New York society There is nothing there but husks"

Katy's tears had ceased, and on her white face there was a new look of woed, and would never again be just what she was before

"Say," she continued, "do you like New York society?"

"Not always--not wholly," Mark answered; "and still you reatly, for all are not like the people you describe Your husband's fah in the social scale who do not make fashion the rule of their lives--sensible, cultivated, intellectual people, of whose acquaintance one lad--people whom I fancy your Sister Helen would enjoy I have only met her twice, it is true, but my impression is that she would not find New York utterly distasteful"

Mark did not knohy he had dragged Helen into that conversation, unless it were that she seemed very near to him as he talked with Katy, who replied: "Yes, Helen finds soood in all She sees differently from what I do, and I wish so much that she was here"

"Why not send for her?" Mark asked, casting about in his mind whether in case Helen came, he, too, could tarry for a week and leave that business in Southbridge, which heto the city