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"I heard a piece of news to-day," he said, presently, in his most

even tone; but Mabel's start upon her seat was alularly

"I suspect, fro, that it

reached you before it did me," continued he "I can attribute your

badly suppressed pertubation to no other cause Mrs Sutton is such

an indefatigable gossip, that this item could hardly have passed her

by Has she told you that Rosa Tazewell is shortly to beco herself to a sied habit of censorship was strong upon him

"I had trusted, until to-day, Mabel, that you had conquered that

disgraceful weakness," he resumed, yetsins He never saw a helpless or

cowering thing without feeling the inclination to set his foot upon

it, and the least show of resistance in such, piqued him into

despotism

"I are that it was not dead when you married a man worth a

thousand such scoundrels as that fellow in Philadelphia I believed