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The butler and footh covers were laid

for three, there was no one present but herself

She looked round the richly decorated and handsomely furnished room, and

felt rather lonely and helpless, but it occurred to her that either Lord

or Lady Wolfer ht come in, and that it was her place to be there; so

she sat at the head of the table--where the butler had drawn back her

chair for her--and began her lunch

By this ti since

her very early breakfast, excepting the biscuit in Lady Wolfer's room;

and she was in the middle of her soup when the footman went in a

leisurely entleman entered

Now, Nell, froined

Lord Wolfer as, if not an old e; she was,

therefore, rather startled when she saw that the gentleht to the botto hi but old; indeed, still young, as age is reckoned

nowadays He was tall and thin, and very grave in manner and expression;

and Nell, as with a blush she rose and eyed hih--his rather handsome face wore the

half-sad, half-wistful expression which she had seen cross Lady Wolfer's

pretty countenance