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"And yet, we have met before," said I, "and the circumstances

were then even more dramatic, perhaps,--weon the word, and speaking very

slowly, "a tempest, cousin?"

"There was much wind and rain, and it was very dark"

"Dark, cousin?"

"But I saw your face very plainly as you lay on your back, sir,

by the aid of a Postilion's lanthorn, and was greatly struck by

our lass and looked

at me, and, as he looked, smiled, but he could not hide the

sudden, passionate quiver of his thin nostrils, or the gleauid lids He rose slowly and paced to

the door; when he ca softly, but

still he could not hide the quiver of his nostrils, or the gleauid lids

"So--it was--you?" he murmured, with a pause between the words

"Oh, was ever anything so damnably contrary! To think that I

should hunt her into your very arms! To think that of all men in

the world it should be you to play the squire of daain, but, as he did so, the stout riding-whip snapped

in his hands like a straw He glanced down at the broken pieces,