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But while she said it, there was a look in the reader's eye that

bespoke inability or reluctance to grapple with the revelation

threatened by the discovery

"The letters htened

whisper, refolding the certificate

They did--for they were in the long, sloping chirography of her

sister-in-law, and signed "Your ever-fond, but lonely wife" Each

contained, moreover, allusions to "Ellis," to "Clermont," to

"Julia," and to "Herbert"--all faratefully of her parents' kindness to his "poor

Louise" in the absence of "her beloved Julius;" and was liberally

spiced with passionate protestations of her inconsolableness and

yearnings for his return Both were dated ten years back, and the

paper was yelloith tis

"What a

all over with terror and incertitude

If there were one sentihtiness, it was love for his wife But could it be that he

had totally forgotten pride and his habitual caution in the

selection of the woman as to be the partner of his home,