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It was very late when Siward first began to be aware of his increasing deafness, the difficulty, too, that he had inconte a fool of himself, very noiselessly somehow--but with more racket than he expected when he miscalculated the distance between his hand and a decanter

It was tio--unless he chose to ask Quarrier for an explanation of that sneer which he found distasteful But there was too hter

Besides he had a matter to attend to--the careful perusal of his mother's letter to Mrs Ferrall

Very white, he rose After an indeter his roos seeot the letter, sank down on the bed's edge and strove to read,--set his teeth gri his blurred eyes to a focus But he couldof it--nor of his toilet either, nor of Ferrall, who ca noticed the electricity still in full glare over the open transo face doard across the bed, his mother's letter crushed in his nerveless hand