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"You have given me no opportunity; and, as you know all, why should I say any more about it?"

"Cornelia, my dear companion, I fear you are inclined to concealirl should not cultivate--I a for dear Sister Maria Beroth--and I hope you will carefully consider the advantages you will derive fro a ood Sisters; and I do not wish to hear you coreat fault Indeed, I would be pleased to return to their peaceful care again"

"And wear the little linen cap and collar, and all the other simplicities? Cornelia! Cornelia! You are as fond as I am of French fashions and fripperies Let us be honest, if we die for it And you e Hyde; for I shall be sure to find the home; for I must look after the tea-table But you will not be sorry, for it will leave you free to think of--"

"Please, Arenta!"

"Very well I will have 'considerations' Good-bye!"

Then the door closed, and Cornelia was left alone But the ated with Arenta's unrest, and a feeling of disappointment was added to it She suddenly realized that her lover's absence froreat vacancy What were all the thousands in its streets, if he was not there? She ht now indeed remove her frame from the ; if Hyde was an impossibility, there was no one else she wished to see pass And her heart told her the report was a true one; she did not doubt for a one to Hyde Manor But the thought , she knew not what, had altered her life She had a new strange happiness, new hopes, new fears and neishes; but they were not an unue trouble, a want that nothing in her usual duties satisfied:--in a word, she had crossed the threshold of wo alone in theof life, and May"