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But his new mood veiled she knew not what It seemed, if she

comprehended it at all, the herald of soeance, in har spirit Before it her

heart became as water Even her colour little by little left her cheeks

She knew that he had only to look at her now to read the truth; that it

ritten in her face, in her shrinking figure, in the eyes which now

guiltily sought and now avoided his And feeling sure that he did read

it and know it, she fancied that he licked his lips, as the cat which

plays with the loated on her terror and her

perplexity

This, though the day and the road arrants for all cheerful

thoughts On one side vineyards clothed the warm red slopes, and rose in

steps fros of a convent On the other

the streareen flats where the black cattle stood knee-

deep in grass, watched by wild-eyed and half-naked youths Again the

travellers lost sight of the Loir, and crossing a shoulder, rode through

the di drifts of last

year's leaves And out again and down again they passed, and turning

aside fro beneath the brownbattlements of which faces

half-sleepy, half-suspicious, watched thelare and heat Down to the river-level again, where a squalid

anchorite, seated at the ed of them,

and the bell of a monastery on the farther bank tolled slumberously the

hour of Nones