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That could hardly be, for these things seehten her At tireat clapping or loud "Again!" And only

upon the stage did the town behold her She rarely went abroad, and at the

small white house in Palace Street she was denied to visitors True, 'twas

the way to keep upon curiosity the keenest edge, to pique interest and

send the town to the playhouse as the one point of view froht be studied But wisdoirl Given, then, that 'twas not her vanity which kept her

Darden's Audrey, as it? Was not Mr Haward of Fair View rich,

handsoentleman? Generous, too, for had he not sworn, as

earnestly as though he expected to be believed, that the girl was pure

innocence? His hand was ready to his sword, nor were men anxious to incur

his cold ene

He was h And she,--well she's woht she

plays Monimia, and her madnesssweet

In this neorld that was so strange to her Darden's Audrey bore herself

as best she ht While it was day she kept within the house, where the