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Nell's face flahed

"Sir Archie Walbrooke gave it radually changed to a keen

scrutiny, under which Nell felt her blush rising again But she said

nothing, and, after a

deeply, he passed on, his hands clasped behind his tall figure, his head

bent

Ione, Lady Wolfer went to her own

apartments Nell stood in the center of the vast and now empty room, and

looked round her absently, and with that sense of so calamity

which we call presentiues, as she was, she could not fail

to have seen that neither the earl nor the countess was happy; and that

the endless work and excitement in which they endeavored to absorb

themselves only left them dissatisfied and wretched

She liked therown very fond of Lady Wolfer, and

her heart ached for the woman who had striven to hide her unhappiness

behind the ayety and recklessness For a ht of the flower, a vague suspicion of

the danger which threatened the countess arose in Nell's mind; but she