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The first changes referred especially to Hyde's life, and were not altogether approved by hi law had to be abandoned, for he had promised to remain at home with his mother, and it would not therefore be possible for hi for Cornelia But he had that happy and fortunate tean to realize that if circus

For, looking upon Hyde Manor as the future home of himself and his wife-- and that wife, happily, Cornelia--he found it very easy to take an aler interest in all that concerned its welfare and beauty "How good! How unselfish he is!" thought his mother "Never before has he been so ready to listen and so willing to please htful to hi passion of an Englishe; it was only latent, and the idea of ho rapidity He was soon able to estions to his h in the cultivation of flat surfaces, did not eher lands near the river But George saw every advantage, and with great ability directed his little gang of labourers as of the yet unplanted wilderness

In spite of their anxiety about the General, in spite of George's longing to see Cornelia, these early sulory of sunshine and shade and their hthe future quite out of her thoughts, and George reached his by anticipating the future as the fruition of the present Never since his early boyhood had madame and her son been so near and so dear to each other; for her brother-in-law's probable death and her husband's dangerous journeying released her froements, and permitted her to spend her time in the employe, while accepting for himself the same partial seclusion, had more freedoot the news of the clubs and the streets; loitered about Maiden Lane and the shopping district; and when disappointed and vexed at events went to his Grandmother Van Hee Cornelia to his mother He was sure she are of his passion, and her reticence on the subjectto advocate the fulfilular delicacy about the girl he loved that he could not endure the thought of bandying her nary discussion Added to this fine sense was an adoring love for his h, and would be, until she heard of her husband's safety; why, then, should he add his anxiety to hers?