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These incidents had made the memory of his last talk with Madaof the two actors his eyes filled with tears, and he stood up to leave the theatre

In doing so, he turned to the side of the house behind hi seated in a box with the Beauforts, Lawrence Lefferts and one or two other ether, and had tried to avoid being with her in conised hiesture of invitation, it was io into the box

Beaufort and Lefferts made way for him, and after a feords with Mrs Beaufort, who always preferred to look beautiful and not have to talk, Archer seated himself behind Madame Olenska There was no one else in the box but Mr Sillerton Jackson, as telling Mrs Beaufort in a confidential undertone about Mrs Lemuel Struthers's last Sunday reception (where so) Under cover of this circumstantial narrative, to which Mrs Beaufort listened with her perfect sle to be seen in profile from the stalls, Madame Olenska turned and spoke in a low voice

"Do you think," she asked, glancing toward the stage, "he will send her a bunch of yellow roses toave a leap of surprise He had called only twice on Madame Olenska, and each time he had sent her a box of yellow roses, and each time without a card She had never before made any allusion to the flowers, and he supposed she had never thought of hiift, and her associating it with the tender leave-taking on the stage, filled hi of that too--I was going to leave the theatre in order to take the picture aith me," he said

To his surprise her colour rose, reluctantly and duskily She looked down at the loved hands, and said, after a pause: "What do you do while May is away?"

"I stick to my work," he answered, faintly annoyed by the question

In obedience to a long-established habit, the Wellands had left the previous week for St Augustine, where, out of regard for the supposed susceptibility of Mr Welland's bronchial tubes, they always spent the latter part of the winter Mr Welland was a mild and silent man, with no opinions but with ht interfere; and one of theo with him on his annual journey to the south To preserve an unbroken domesticity was essential to his peace of mind; he would not have knohere his hair-brushes were, or how to provide stamps for his letters, if Mrs Welland had not been there to tell him