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"I had no idea," Mr van der Luyden continued, "that things had coain "It occurs to me, my dear, that the Countess Olenska is already a sort of relation--through Medora Manson's first husband At any rate, she will be when Newland's Times, Newland?"

"Why, yes, sir," said Archer, who usually tossed off half a dozen papers with his ain Their pale eyes clung together in prolonged and serious consultation; then a faint smile fluttered over Mrs van der Luyden's face She had evidently guessed and approved

Mr van der Luyden turned to Mrs Archer "If Louisa's health allowed her to dine out--I wish you would say to Mrs Lovell Mingott--she and I would have been happy to--er--fill the places of the Lawrence Leffertses at her dinner" He paused to let the irony of this sink in "As you know, this is impossible" Mrs Archer sounded a sympathetic assent "But Newland tells 's Times; therefore he has probably seen that Louisa's relative, the Duke of St Austrey, arrives next week on the Russia He is co to enter his new sloop, the Guinevere, in next summer's International Cup Race; and also to have a little canvasback shooting at Trevenna" Mr van der Luyden paused again, and continued with increasing benevolence: "Before taking hi a few friends to meet him here--only a little dinner--with a reception afterward I alad as I auests" He got up, bent his long body with a stiff friendliness toward his cousin, and added: "I think I have Louisa's authority for saying that she will herself leave the invitation to dine when she drives out presently: with our cards--of course with our cards"

Mrs Archer, who knew this to be a hint that the seventeen-hand chestnuts which were never kept waiting were at the door, rose with a hurried murmur of thanks Mrs van der Luyden bea with Ahasuerus; but her husband raised a protesting hand

"There is nothing to thankas I can help it," he pronounced with sovereign gentleness as he steered his cousins to the door