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"I'll get the _Fashion Gazette_ if Mrs Porter has it, , and Molly will hear you if you want her before the tiirlish enough while ro with her brother,

but the scene with her stepray eyes were rather sad and weary; there was a slight droop

at the corners of the sweetly curved lips; but the change lent an

indescribable char at it, as it was then,

no ure toward

him, to close the wistful eyes with a kiss, to caress the soft hair with

a co hand There was a subtle fascination in the very droop of

the lips which would have haunted an artist or a poet, and driven the

ordinary man ith love

Mrs Lorton had called Shorne Mills a "hole," but as a e stood almost upon the brow of the hill dohich ran the

very steep road to the tiny harbor and fishing place which nestled under

the red Devon cliffs; and barbaric as the place ht be, it was

beautiful beyond words No spot in this loveliest of all counties was

more lovely; and as yet it was, so to speak, undiscovered With the

exception of the vicarage there was no other house, worthy the name, in