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"That is the truth Where wert thou, not to know this?"

"I careat trouble I was sick and kept my room"

"And sick thou art now, I can see that," said Mada forward--"What is the matter with thee, my Joris?"

"Cornelia has refused me I know not how it is, that no woreeable?"

"Thou art as handso as can be; and it is not Cornelia that has said 'no' to thee, it is her father Noill be sorry, for thy uncle is dead and thy father is Earl Hyde, and thou thyself art a lord"

"I care not for such things I am a poor lord, if Cornelia be not my lady" "I wonder they sent not after thee!"

"They would be expecting one directly back with it, but it was beyond all sur, that my father should return Grandfather, will you see Doctor Moran for me? You can speak a word that will prevail"

"I will not, my Joris If thy father were not here, that would be different He is the right man to move in the matter Ever thou art in too much of a hurry Think now of thy life as a book of uncut leaves, and do not turn a page till thou hast read it to the very last word"

"I will see Cornelia for thee," said Madairl what she means Very often she passes here, sometirandson's love away like an old shoe? Art thou not ashaht of love, for I knoell thou said to my Joris, thou loved him And she will tell me the truth Yes, indeed, if into oes not, until I have the why, and the wherefore"

"Do not be unkind to her, grandmother--perhaps it is not her fault--if she had only said a few sorroords--Let me show you her letter"

"No," said Van Heernskirk" One thing at a tio and welco has been the delay already"

"Then good-bye! Grandmother, you will speak or me?" And she smiled and nodded, and stood on her tiptoe while Joris stooped and kissed her-- "Fret not thyself at all I will see Cornelia and speak for thee" And then he kissed her again and rode away