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So Doctor Moran, being physician and fauests, had to listen to such reminiscences and anticipations wherever he went He knew that he could not talk against the great public current, and that in the excited state of social feeling it would be a kind of treason even to hint disapproval of Arenta, or of any of her friends or doings But he suffered He was questioned by sohtened by others; his opinion was asked about dresses and cerehter's prominence as bridesht be talked to socially Yet if he ventured to hint dissatisfaction, or to express himself by a scornful "Pooh! Pooh!" he was answered by looks of such astonish womanly suspicions, that he could not doubt the kind of conversation which followed his exit: "Do you think Doctor Moran VERY clever?"

"Most people think so"

"He is so unsyoing to have, and to do I think doctors ought to be chatty It is so good for their patients to be cheered up a little"

Doctor Moran divined perfectly this taste for gossip and MEDICINAL sympathy combined, and to administer it was, to his So in these days he was not a cheerful man to live with, and Cornelia's beauty and radiant happiness affected him very much as Hyde's pronounced satisfaction affected Arenta One reeable visits, he saw Cornelia and Hyde co side by side in all the lazy happiness of perfect love; and as he looked at them the sorrow of an immense disillusion filled him to the lips He had believed himself, as yet, to be the first and the dearest in his child's love; but in that moment his eyes were opened, and he felt as if he had been suddenly thrust out fro possible: he went ho haste into the stone court, and soon after enter the house fro every door after hiered him--that he was in that temper which makes a woman cry, but which a man can only relieve by noisy or emphatic movement of some kind A resolute look came into her face and she said to herself, "John has always had his oay--and my way also; but Cornelia's way--the childto say about that"