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"I thought you would tell me whatever it was best forher eyes

If she had said that she was too well-trained to assail hiatories he had not invited, it would have been nearer the

to her which I desire to conceal," he

rejoined, with some stiffness, "or she would never have becohter of a

residing in the vicinity of Boston, Massachusetts I ht me into association

with her party I travelled with the the

White Mountains, and, while in Boston, visited her daily We were

betrothed a week ago, and having, as I have observed, an aversion to

protracted engagements, I prevailed upon her to appoint the tenth of

next e day There you have the story in brief I

have not Mrs Sutton's talents as a raconteur, nor her disposition

to turn hearts inside out for the edification of her auditors"

"Does she--Miss Dorrance--look like anybody I know?" asked Mabel,

hesitating to declare herself dissatisfied with the skeleton

love-tale, yet uncertain how to learnif she is passable in appearance,"