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These reflections enabled hith to encounter his brother

with temper, and to find that, after all, it had been e than an actual summons to surrender

Lord Keith was a less foolish and athered from poor Fanny's terrified account; and all he had done

was to inti himself to her, and the

viehich he had placed hiree disconcerted by her vehe her faithfulness to her first husband's ury of her affection for a second He did not even own that he

had been precipitate

"Let her get accustomed to the idea," he said with a shrewd sainst it will be all in my favour when the turn

comes"

"I doubt whether you will find it so"

"All the world does not live on romance like you,like her cannot fail to get into

scrapes; have offers made to her, or at least the credit of theed to her yourself by

this time, and it is no one's fault but your own that you are not It is

in the very nature of things that she will be driven to shelter herself

from the persecution, hoever has bided his ti accepted on such terms--"

He smiled, as if the romance of the exclaracious, ladylike woh