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"But if infatuation--quite possible I adued, "how do you

account for the nature of the conspiracy"

"You expect a cogency of conduct not usual in woes of a oing on the way it looks, whereas it is capable, for its own ends, of

walking backwards into a precipice

When one once acknowledges that she was not a common woman, then all this

is easily understood She was abominable but she was not common She

had suffered in her life not from its constant inferiority but fro herself placed in a

con to become the second

Mrs de Barral Which would have been impracticable De Barral would

not have knohat to do with a wife But even if by sooverness would have repulsed him with

scorn She had treated hi with an assured,

distant politeness In her composed, schooled hter exceedingly I have a notion that she

had always disliked intensely all her charges including the two ducal (if

they were ducal) little girls horatified existence it must have been for a woive as most of her betters

She had seen her youth vanish, her freshness disappear, her hopes die,