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Then she rang for a lighted candle, and while waiting for its arrival neatly folded her letters Her white wax and seal were at hand, and she delayed the servant until she had closed and addressed them

"You will take Lieutenant Hyde's letter first," she said; "and make no delay about it, for it is very important Mr Van Ariens' note you can deliver as you return"

As soon as this business was quite out of her hands, she sank with a happy sigh into a large coently, and closed her eyes to think over what she had done She was quite satisfied She was sure that no length of reflection could have made her decide differently She had Hyde's letter in her bosoainst it, and vowed to her heart that he orthy of her love, and that he only should have it As for Re of annoyance, alry that he had chosen that day to urge his unwelcome suit, and thus thrust his personality into Hyde's special hour

"He always ht, "he ever has the way to co I would alter in him, even at the cost of a wish! JORIS! JORIS!" and she let the dear nahtened and lengthened her eyes, and spread over her lovely face a blushing glow

After a while she rose up and adorned herself for her lover's visit And when she entered the parlor Mrs Moran looked at her with a little wonder For she had put on with her loveliest gown a kind of bewildering prettiness There was no cloud in her eyes, only a glow of soft dark fire Her soul was in her face, it spoke in her bright glances, her sweet sht step; it softened her speech to htful that her ive her all she wishes, she is so charht in at five o'clock, but Doctor Moran had not returned, and there was in both women's hearts a little sense of disappoint at his unusual delay, Cornelia feared he would be too weary and perhaps, too much interested in other ht, "Joris can coht is not the only opportunity"

It was nearly seven o'clock when the doctor came, and Cornelia was sure her lover would not be ood tiracious with a cup in his hand, and the hour after it when his pipe kept his had fallen out better than if she had planned thehtful for the weary , that he found it easy to respond to the happy ats to tell about the fashionable exodus to Philadelphia, about the handsome dresses that had been shown him, and the funny household dilemmas that had been told him And he was reat part of the day with hiood sense and good disposition, and the unnecessary, and almost cruel, confiscation of property his family had suffered, for their Tory principles