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Surely Si and tu-place of spirits whose dispositions were to evil fully inclined, and of e of combat Viola, in full revolt, would not even perony of love and hate, paced his roorate Mrs La upon her, lay awake a long tiood-night, but she did not, and at last the waters of sleep rolled in to sube and carry away her cares

Viola, ust of Pratt as well as by her loss of respect and confidence in Clarke, did not lose herself till nearly dawn Her mind was at first busy with the past, filled with a procession of the s he had done to enrich her life She was troubled by the rerave, sad courtesy of his intercourse in the days just following his wife's death At that tiestions for her reading had given hinity and romantic charm "He was nice then," she said to herself "If only he had stopped there" When he fell at her feet in the atteraded in her eyes His whole uides" to sanction their ultiht of her tacit acquiescence in this arranges," she now said to the invisible ones "I do not love Anthony Clarke I don't even respect hier"

He had, indeed, become almost as offensive to her as Pratt, and the picturesque, soulful presence which he affected was at thescientist he was mentally and morally sick, and the world which he inhabited (and which she shared with him) hopelessly askew Of this she had a clear perception as her mind recalled and dwelt upon the taste, the comfort, the orderly cheer of the Serviss home

"We never made the spirit-world so awful Mamma did not take such an excited view of it all What has produced this change in us? Tony has He has carried us out into a nasty world and he has set us aer"

She did hiht Mrs Lambert, left to herself, would have kept a serene ht be With her the world of spirit interpenetrated the world of every-day life, and the one was quite as natural as the other and of helpful, cheering effect She had reht as when in Colorow, and aside frouidance would not have seemed at any point to be akin to either fraud or fanatic