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Lady Angleford nodded

"Yes; and if she was engaged to him when you last saw her, that would

account for her happiness, notwithstanding her poverty She is an

extreirl I remember her quite well I saw her at your

dinner party, you know I hope she is going to o with you to see her to-, his hands clasped behind his back, his face set

sternly Every word they said caused hi of pain; and as he

listened, his ed to

a leford looked up at hi of Miss Lorton and her brother, Drake," she said

"She's a kind of connection of Lady Wolfer's, and lived with them for a

time I wish you would see the brother and see if he really is too young

to be the resident engineer It would be so nice to have sorilanced up at hileford looked after hied he is!" she said, in a low voice

"In ay?" asked Lady Wolfer

The countess was silent for a mo," she said; "as if

so him I only saw hih he was by no ht and cheerful; but now----I noticed the change the moe He had cause for