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"Very well He preached very tiresohter Mary"

"'Tis ain America?"

"She is on a visit to her cousin, who is married to the Governor of Massachusetts He is here on soton, he brought her with hiether one autumn She came often to Hyde Court when I was a lad"

"And she proland I wonder e have been brought together for Thereso unlikely--Can it be Cornelia?"

"'Tis the most improbable of suppositions I do not suppose she ever saw Cornelia"

"She had not even heard of her--and yet my mind will connect them"

"You have no reason to do so; and it is beyond all likelihood I am sorry I went away from Mary"

"She took no notice of your desertion"

"That is, as maybe I was a mere lad when I saw her last Is she passable?"

"She is extreentleood promise and estate I dare say it is true"

It was so true that even while they were speaking of thethese words to her betrothed :" Yesterday Iof Downhill Market froreeable The young Lord got out of ns on hiether in Philadelphia, I know not Isummer, and then I may find out At present I will dismiss the Hydes I have met pleasanter company"

Annie dismissed the subject with the same sort of impatience It seemed to no one a matter of any importance, and even Annie that day had none of the penetrative insight which belongs to "that finer ats, Reverberant of days to be, Are heard in forecast echoings, Like wave beats from a viewless sea"

As for Hyde, he was shaken, confused, lifted off his feet, as it were; but after another day had passed, he had come to one steady resolution-- HE WOULD SPEAL TO CORNELIA WHEN NEXT HE MET HER, NO MATTER WHERE IT WAS, OR WHO WAS WITH HER And that passionate stress of spirit which induced this resolve, led hio out and seek for this opportunity