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Arenta's voice, petulant and not pleasant, broke the charh they rose, dropped each other's hand, and went out of their heaven on earth to , and otten that the clock hter is always fatal to feeling; the ical land of love was suddenly far away, and there was the sound of china, and the heavy tones of Rehter fret; and they stood once n, fabulous and fantastical, that it was difficult to pass frohts, into their atmosphere

It would have been harder but for Madame Jacobus She understood; and she sympathized; and there was a kindly element in her nature which disposed her to side with the lovers Her smile,--quick and short as a flash of the eyes--revealed to Hyde her intention of favour, and without one spoken word, these two knew the, she held his hand while she talked, saying at last the very words he longed to hear-"We shall expect you again on Thursday, Lieutenant Everything is yet undecided, and the work you have begun, it is right that you should finish"

He answered only, "Thank you, madame!" but he accompanied the words with a look which asked so much, and confessed so much, that mada accouests, she acknowledged it "But then," she whispered, "I always did dearly love a lover; and this proood honest hatred for it to co conditions to get the better of--Well, then, my help is ready In plain truth, I don't like such perfection as Doctor John; and ood- tempered, just like his father, too; and there never was aman than Dick Hyde HE-HO! I reotten e that will exactly suit ainst it!" Then she said softly to herself-"REM went to Cornelia as they were about to leave, and he reminded her that, by her permission, he had come to walk home with her

"CORNELIA turned to Hyde, excused herself, and, cool and silent, took her place by Rem's side