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He laughed naturally and pleasantly Having confessed to what he

regarded as a ridiculous succu of his buoyant spirit to

athtrave still

"There is soht," she said, in a

loed tone "But the burden you describe has weighed , I felt suddenly removed from

you by a horrid gulf What if all this should be the preparation to

us for soer?"

"Sweet! these are unwholeso can

be a disaster that leaves us to one another," was the text of

Frederic's fond soothing; and by the time Mrs Sutton descended froene that the seeds of ague

and fever lurked in the river-fogs, the couple frohted parlor, all s,

jocosely, what had become of the recent occupants of the apart Rosa was like

freshly-poured chane, in sweet and sparkle Alfred, rueful and

li clouds that verified Mabel's prediction had

soaked hiht He was dry and coure--within twenty minutes after his beloved fluttered, like a

tame canary, into the chair next his own--in fivein, and upon her s her very

caprices as he had never admired another woman's virtues--than he

had been prior to the brief, but teht She