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"'Not by sight, no,' he said 'She was only here a few days before she died I've heard she was very winsome and that there was a scandal of some kind mixed up with her'

"I would not ask hi to you, my wife, I confess that my tears dropped upon the turf under which I knew Genevra lay"

"I alad they did; I should hate you if you had not cried," Katie exclaireat shock ca fast to the rave she had sat upon with Wilford standing near

A buried as not so dreadful to conte still, and Katy's heart did not beat with quite so heavy throbs of fear and sha that to her al had been done as to Genevra, for had he not deceived her from the very first, he and his mother, who had been the terror of Genevra's life as she was the bane of Katy's

"Do you forgive me, Katy? Do you lovedown to kiss her, but Katy drew her face away and did not answer then

She did not know herself just how she felt toward him He did not seem just like the husband she had trusted in so blindly It would take a long tiet that another head than hers had lain upon his bosoer yet to blot out thewords uttered to his ht he could do that, never drea that she would sooner have parted with her right hand than have complained of him Her idol had fallen in more respects than one, and the heart it had bruised in the fall refused at once to gather the shattered pieces up and call theood as new She was not obstinate, she was not sulky, as Wilford began to fancy She was only stunned and could not rally at his bidding He had confessed the whole, keeping nothing back, and he felt that Katy was unjust not to acknowledge his iveness, again bent down to kiss her, but Katy answered: "Not yet, Wilford, not till I feel all right toward you A wife's kiss should be sincere"