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Er over her, muffled up to the

eyes, and a letter of his own in his hand Her first ilad as she was to see hi his wrappings, "and I could not stay at

hoes about chemical analysis,

which he does me the honour to think I can understand, two of

commissions for villainous compounds, and one of protestations that 'I

will be drowned; nobody shall help h had coreat

a relief to her She did not know that he had spent so down his vexation, lest he should speak ungently of her

brother's indifference "Poor Edward," she said, "you don't mean that

this is all the reply you have?"

"See for yourself," and he pointed to the divisions of the letter he had

described "There is all he vouchsafes to his own proper affairs You

see he misapprehends the whole; indeed, I don't believe he has even read

our letters"

"We often thought he did not attend to all rote," said Er!"

"Nay, Ermine, you disheartened with the end in view!"

"There are certainly the letters about Maddox's committal still to reach

him, but who knows if they will have more effect! Oh, Colin, this was

such a hope that--perhaps I have dwelt too much upon it!"

"It is such a hope," he repeated "There is no reason for laying it