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I was badly upset for several days For a tiht of what had occurred from my mind, but as soon as I felt able, I sat doith the whole matter before me, as it were, and deliberately looked it in the face I think I never felt more inane in arded it All that saved me from utter self-abasement was the fact that it had occurred at a time when I was at such a low ebb physically, by reason of illness I deteret it, as speedily as possible But, however keenly I felt the huht, it never occurred toory and ht about by one cause, and only one--that I fully realized; and now that I had repudiated the cause, I ht have been expected to reconsider the refusal But I did not

Soon after I was up and about once more, I learned that ht--no, I did not think! but I cherished secretly a--well, no! I cherished nothing in secret or in public!

I learned so up, and this was that a story was going the rounds to the effect that Mr Gregory had broken our engageh occasioned , alnant, Mrs Catlin was running about, telling everybody that Mr Gregory had confided in her, in strictest confidence, the truth of the matter, which was that I had ended the affair, and not he

I was ory's part He showed his shrewdness, too; he could not announce this in public, or go to people one by one, so he confided it to Mrs Catlin, and told her not to tell

One Sabbath evening about ten o'clock, I began to lock up the house Early retireht, having no particular reason for sitting up, I was about to indulge in it as a novelty

I raised the shade of one of the study ith intent to draw the bolt, but my hand paused in the act, forbeauty Fall had lately swept her gorgeous leaves one side, and closed her doors for the season, and ere now standing on the threshold of winter The early snows are apt to be soft and clinging; it is later on, usually, when the there doard, that they become crisp and hard It is seldom, however, at any time of year that the atmospheric conditions are favorable to such a creation as I beheld that night I hardly know just what is necessary to make it all--a still,the most important conditions, I believe