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Mabel was still turning the vexed question of right and expediency

over in her fast-heating brain, the next evening, as she sat in the

parlor, and feigned to hearken to the diligent duett-practising

going on at the piano, her husband and Mrs Aylett being the

perfor to return for a

longer sojourn in the course of a month Mr Aylett read his

newspaper at one side of the centre table, and his sister eers and eyes at the other with a trifle of fancy-work---an

anti for her hostess Her industrious or

fidgetty habits were chronic and inveterate, and people, in

re upon them, did not reflect that this species of

restlessness is in itself a disease, seldom analyzed, more seldom

cured There are few students or physicians of huo deep enough into the springs

of uish the external symptoms of heart-cancer

from ossification, or to learn ihe difference between satiety and

atrophy A night of nervous sleeplessness, a day of irresolution and

dread, had aggravated almost beyond her control the restlessness

which in Mabel was the unerring indication of unhealthiness of mind

and body To sit still was impracticable; to talk connectedly and

easily would soon be as difficult She was glad to see Aunt Rachel