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Mabel was ree with hie;

he twenty-five Your property is unincu at very short notice Mr Chiiton

represents that his incoains, is sufficient to warrant hi

forthwith I shall see that no ti the inquiries

upon which depends the progress of the negotiation Business calls

me North in a week or ten days I shall stop a day in Philadelphia,

and settle your affair"

The frightfully business-likeof her happiness

appalled the listener into silence The loss of Frederic; the

destruction of her love-dream; the weary years of lonely

wretchedness that would follow the bereavement, were to hihed in the scale of his

iment no more than would unconsidered dust For the

first ti-star, she

ventured to wonder if the unswerving rectitude that had elevated him

above the level of otherafter all; if a te, not of hus, sympathy for the needs, of

ordinary ence of his talents and

virtues into mild lustre, more tolerable to the optics of fallible

beholders Unsuspicious, with all his astuteness, of her sacrilegious doubts,

Winston proceeded: "In the event of your e, you would desire, no doubt, that

Mrs Sutton should take up her abode with you? You would find her

useful in et on aodson"

"I do not think she expects to go with ered by his coolly confident air "I certainly have never

entertained the idea I iined that she would remain with you,

while you needed her services"

"That will not be long I shall be married on the 10th of October"