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"What was it?" inquired Annie languidly

"She misdirected her letters and thus sent 'No' to the man whom of all others, she wished to htness seemed to pervade Annie's brain cells, and she could hardly restrain the exclahtenhtly, and in so doing, her eyes fell upon the tall figure of Hyde standing clearly out in the intense, white sunshine of the Broads; and perhaps her soul may have whispered to his soul, for he turned his face to the house, and lifted the little red fishing cap from his head The action stimulated to the utmost Annie's intuitive powers

"Mary," she said, "what a strange incident! Did you know the girl?"

"I saw her once in Philadelphia Mr Van Ariens told me about her She is the friend of his sister the Marquise de Tounnerre"

"How did Mr Van Ariens know of such an event?"

"I suppose the Marquise told him of it"

"I am interested Is she pretty? Who, and what is her father? Did she lose her lover through the irl, than inht"

"I always ask you about Mr Van Ariens A girl cannot have two lovers," "But if one is gone away?"

"Then he has gone away; and that is the end of him He must not trouble the one who has coht, Annie But one's first lover has always a charht was once very dear to irl"

"So areat beauty Her name is Cornelia Moran; and her father is a famous physician in New York"

"And this beauty had two lovers?"

"Yes; an Englishman of noble birth; and an Alishman They must have both asked her hand on the same day, and she must have answered both letters in the same hour; and the letter she intended for the man she loved, went to the ot the refusal she intended for the other, for he never sought her society again; and Mr Van Ariens told me she nearly died in consequence I know not as to this part of the story; when I saw her in Philadelphia, she had no ave delicacy to all her charms"