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He continued, finding I did not answer, just a faint tone of resent into his voice--because I would not help hi him!

"It is a preposterous idea in these days for any one to dispose of people's destinies in this way, and I ae would be i with a tone of careless sincerity I had to control allin Mrs Carruthers's presence that I alad you put it so plainly," I went on, sweetly "I ondering how I should write it to you, but now you are here it is quite easy for us to finish the matter at once Whatever Mrs Carruthersher; but it would have been useless for me to say so to her, and so I waited until the time for speech should come Won't you have sorily, for an instant; presently, with a sigh of relief, he said, half laughing: "Then we are agreed; we need say no more about it!"

"No er was clutching ry with--Mrs Carruthers for procuring this situation, Christopher for being insensible toconte otherwise Why, when one thinks of it calmly, should he want to reen eyes and red hair that he had never seen before in his life? I hoped he thought I was a person of naturally high color, becauseand burning Itme some emotion, and that he should never know!

He took souessed that he also was not as cal else," he said--and now there was al else which I want to say, though perhaps Mr Barton could say it for ht to you, and that is, you must let ht to expect from my aunt, after the promises I understand she always made to you----"