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so that he saw her usually pale cheeks were cri chest "It is all ith them

as yet But--but--it's your brother"

He was at no loss now as to what his brother could have done, but he

stood confounded, with a sense of personal share in the offence, and his

first words were--"I aht of this"

"No, indeed," she exclaimed, "who could? It was too preposterous to be

dreaht he ht

have known better"

A secret sense of amusement crossed the Colonel, as he recollected that

the disparity between Fanny Curtis and Sir Stephen Tereater than that between Lady Teentle lady was just at present arding what had just passed as an insult to her

husband and an attack on the freedo words on the haste of his brother's proceeding, she burst

out again with indignation al in one so soft--"Haste! Yes!

I did think that people would have had soush of tears carief and less of

violence, as if she for the first time felt herself unprotected by her

husband's name