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The gardens of Glenavelin have an air of antiquity beyond the dwelling, for there the modish fashions of another century have been folloith enthusias arched avenues, bowers and sued with a Georgian parapet A for of the tradition still survived Set in the heart of hilly eh in an upland vale Of an afternoon sleep reigned supre stone, the lone green walks vanishing into a bosky darkness were instinct with the quiet of ages It needed but Lady Prue with her flounces and furbelows and Sir Pertinax with his cane and buckled shoon to re-create the ancient world before good Queen Anne had gone to her rest

In one of the shadiest corners of a great lawn Lady Manorwater sather eyes, dozed over ashe and Alice had broken the convention of the house and gone riding in the haughlands till lunch Now she suffered the penalty and dozed, but her co a tireless creature who knew not lethargy Besides, there was sufficient in prospect to stir her curiosity Lady Manorwater had announced some twenty times that day that her nepheould co the truth of the prophecy, was prepared to receive hiler remained clear in her memory, and she confessed to herself that he interested her The girl had no connoisseur's eye for character; her interest was the frank and unabashed interest in a soure as credited by all his friends with great gifts and a surprising amiability After breakfast she had captured one of the spectacled people, whose na tribe of students by whom all the minor intellectual work of the world is done, and done well It is a great class, living in the main in red-brick villas on the outskirts of acade incessantly, and finally attaining to the faraph in the Times at the lastMr Hodda, pretty, an heiress, and presuht hi here this afternoon," she had announced "Do you know him?"