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Mortimer had already furnished his world with sufficienta new one: how, as Leila was standing before Tiffany's looking for her carriage, a ly: "Oh, you can't play that game on me; I've seen you with Leroy Mortih Leila heard it with a shrug; but such thingsthat Plank should hear her naradation

Mortiht very frequently now Also, he appeared to s," because he seldo apparently content with his allowance

Once or twice Plank saw hi to a world very far removed from Leila's So at all--one Lydia Vyse, somewhat celebrated for an audacity not too delicate But Plank was no er his prospects by a closer acquaintance with that sort of pretty woman

Meanwhile Mortimer kept away from home, wife, and church, and Plank frequented them, so the two men did not meet very often; and the less they met the less they found to say to one another

Now that the forty days had really begun, Major Belwether becah Lenten duties sat lightly enough upon the house of Belwether These decent observances were liment of fast days, church in moderation, and active participation in the succession of informal affairs calculated to sustain life in those intellectually atrophied and wealthy people entirely dependent upon others for their amusements

To these people no fear of punish left to their own devices; and so, though the opera was over, theatres unfashionable, formal functions suspended and dances ended, the pace still continued at a discreet and decorous trot; and those who had not fled to California or Pale with an unction

And all this while Sylvia had not seen Siward

Sylvia was changing The characteristic amiability, the sensitive reserve, the sweet composure which the world had always counted on in her, had becooverned the caprice and ie on insolence amazed her intimates at times; a sudden, flushed impatience startled the habitués of her shrine There was a new, unseeing hardness in her eyes; in her attitude the faintest hint of cyniciss coldly, indifferent to the canons of the art; and true selfishness, the most delicate of all the arts, requires an expert