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When Helena went back to the house, her face was red, and her whole

body tingling; every now and then her breath cae

At that moment she believed that she hated everybody in the world--the

cruel, foolish, arrogant world!--even the thought of David brought no

softening And indeed, when that first fury had subsided, she still

did not want to see the little boy; that destroying wind of anger had

beaten her conity

meet the child's candid eyes It was not until the next day that she

could find any pleasure in him, or even in the prospect of Lloyd's

visit; and when these interests began to revive, sudden gusts of rage

would tear her, and she would fall into abrupt reveries, declaring to

herself that she would tell Lloyd how she had been insulted! But she

reht moment to enlist

his sympathy for the affront; she must decide with just what caress

she would tell him that she meant to leave Old Chester, and come, with

David, to live in Philadelphia (Oh, would Frederick ever die?)

But, little by little, she put the miserable matter behind her, and

filled the days before Lloyd's arrival with plans for the few golden

hours that they were to be together, when he was to have her "all to

hied by David

Now Saturday, when you come to think of it, is always a day of joy--