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Mr Britt was right Mrs Lambert was very fond of Clarke--had, indeed, quite taken him into her heart He was at once son and spiritual adviser, and his wishes had the force of couished her hter, and this affliction still lay like aof his i confession of desire Her reh character of his wife made Viola seem doubly the child; and so when, from time to time, some busybody hinted at the hter, she put the covert insinuation aith a frank word--"You "

Viola, too, fro of their acquaintance, had adined, and had humbled herself before Adele as to a very wonderful lady of the mysterious outer world, whose deporthtenment; and when she passed away, the land of the shadow became just that much richer, more complete in its doh the vale, saying, "I auide"

Thus all powers of earth and heaven had combined to make Clarke the ruler of Viola La Clinton Ward and all other suitors--he absorbed her thought She adifts, and trenetic hands, and especially responded to thewhen it took on the pleading melody of the lover At tiue unrest that life becae when the world is for the lover's conquest, and the cadence of love's song means most and is least understood; and yet at tiling, too, with growing ae of the world which was beginning toplace to the insight of the woman The wish to shake off her invisible torirls was in reality a deht to be loved and valued for her own natural self, entirely free from the touch of spectral hands

She was disappointed that Clarke did not understand and sye had never once entered her mind He was a minister, and she reverenced his office, and, besides, she considered herself but a girl, too ignorant and too trivial to be the wife of one so high in holy service