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So it caated the loch, and had tea on a lawn of heather, she inforet out at Haystounslacks, for she wished to see the farreed readily, with the result that Alice and Mr Stocks were left sole occupants of the carriage for the better half of the way The iven him His irritation at Lewis's projects had been tempered by Alice's kindness at lunch and Wratislaw's unlooked-for cos looked rosy for him; far off, as on the horizon of his hopes, he saw a seat in Parliament and a fair and amply dowered wife

But Miss Wishart was scarcely in so pleasant a humour With Lewis she was undeniably cross, but of Mr Stocks she was radically intolerant A ht send her to his side, but the position was unnatural and could not be ure--for he showed to perfection in his own surroundings--was so colamour of adventurous youth, that for awootten her austere creed

Mr Stocks went about his duty with praise-worthy thoroughness For the fiftieth time in a week he detailed to her his prospects When he had raised a cloud-built castle of fine hopes, when he had with manly simplicity repeated his confession of faith, he felt that the crucial moment had arrived Nohen she looked down the saracefully ask her to adorn the fair scene with her presence

"Alice," he said, and at the sound of her nairl started from a reverie in which Leas not absent, and looked vacantly in his face

He took it for , Alice We have seen a good deal of each other lately, and I have co for me, for I want you to proular sentences Unconsciously he had fallen into the soft patronizing tone in which aforetiirl looked at the large sentihed She felt ashamed of her rudeness even in the act