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There was still Madame Jacobus to hope for She was so shrewd and so kindly, that Cornelia felt certain of her sympathy and wise advice But month after month passed away andNow and then there came short fateful letters from Arenta, and Van Ariens--utterly ht be coe the very worst circu suain; but before that time Cornelia had at least attained to the wisest of all the virtues--that calm, hushed contentment, which is only another name for happiness--that contentment which accepts the fact that there is a chain of causes linked to effects by an invincible necessity; and that whatever is, could not have wisely been but so And if this was fatalisuid pessi quicksands, to end it in wreck

One day at the close of October she put down her needleith a little i, et a breath of the sea I shall not stay long"

On her way to the Battery she was thinking of Hyde, and of their frequent walks together there; and for once she passed the house of Mada-closed s It was growing dark as she returned, and ere she quite reached it she are of a glow of fire light and candle light from the s She quickened her steps, and saw a servant well known to her standing at the open door directing two es She immediately accosted him

"Has madame returned at last, Ameer?" she asked joyfully

"Madame has returned home," he answered "She is weary--she is not alone--she will not receive to-night"

"Surely not I did not think of such a thing Tell her only that I alad, and will call as soon as she can see me"

The man's manner--usually so friendly--was shy and peculiar, and Cornelia felt saddened and disappointed "And yet why?" she asked herself "Madame has but reached home--I did not wish to intrude upon her--Alad she is back again"--and she walked rapidly hohts which this unexpected arrival induced They were hopeful thoughts, leaning--however she directed them--towards her absent lover She felt sure madame would see clearly to the very bottom of what she could not understand She went into her mother's presence full of renewed expectations, and htness