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"Really, I can't tell you He asked Dorcas sohted with her answer that he is capering about as you see!"

Mary laughed

"How ridiculous! He's going out of the gate Isn't he couess what he'll do next"

"Is he quite s?"

"I honestly don't know Sometimes, I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter; and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is h, Mary was looking thoughtful this rave, alood opportunity to tackle her on the subject of Cynthia I began rather tactfully, I thought, but I had not gone far before she stopped me authoritatively

"You are an excellent advocate, I have no doubt, Mr Hastings, but in this case your talents are quite throay Cynthia will run no risk of encountering any unkindness froan to staain she stopped me, and her words were so unexpected that they quite drove Cynthia, and her troubles, out of s," she said, "do you think I and ether?"

I was considerably taken aback, andof the sort

"Well," she said quietly, "whether it is your business or not, I will tell you that we are not happy"

I said nothing, for I saw that she had not finished

She began sloalking up and down the rooure of hers swaying gently as she walked She stopped suddenly, and looked up atabout me, do you?" she asked "Where I co, in fact? Well, I will tell you I will make a father confessor of you You are kind, I think--yes, I am sure you are kind"

Soht have been I reun her confidences in much the same way Besides, a father confessor should be elderly, it is not at all the role for a young lish," said Mrs Cavendish, "but my mother was a Russian"