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It is the wont of the sex to snatch at an ell where an inch is offered,

and to press an advantage in circuenerosity, scruples to ask fordependence on the male, and is one

which a hundred instances, froest where the need is greatest

When Made swoon into which

her lover's defection had cast her, the expectation of the worst was so

strong upon her that she could not at once credit the respite which

Madame Carlat hastened to announce She could not believe that she still

lay safe, in her own room above stairs; that she was in the care of her

own servants, and that the chaood wo beside her

As was to be expected, she ca with nervous exhaustion She looked for him, as soon as she

looked for any; and even when she had seen the door locked and double-

locked, she doubted--doubted, and shook and hid herself in the hangings

of the bed The noise of the riot and rapine which prevailed in the

city, and which reached the ear even in that locked rooh

the , of paper, with an upper pane of glass, looked into a

courtyard--was enough to drive the blood from a woman's cheeks But it

was fear of the house, not of the street, fear froirl into the darkest corner and shook her

wits She could not believe that even this short respite was hers, until

she had repeatedly heard the fact confir me!" she cried more than once And each time she