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Thus another week passed, of which he gave three days to the production of two or threeweek he felt sure that he would hear froht on Sunday, scarcely leaving his chair, and drank more deeply than usual In consequence, he felt wretchedly on Monday, and, therefore, strolled off to look for so head Hitherto he had avoided all localities where he would be apt to meet those who knew him; and by reason of his brief residence in town there were comparatively feere familiar with his features He now recalled the fact that he had often seen from his hile an ines across a small ravine that ran a little back of that lady's residence Hetheain upon the place where such rich and abundant happiness had once seerasp

For several days he had been conscious of a growing desire to hear fro how they regarded his mysterious disappearance, or whether reports of his vain inquiry for work had reached therew obstinate with time and failure, he resolved that he would not co favorable to tell; and he hoped, and almost believed, that before many days passed, he could address to them a literary weekly paper in which they would find, in prominent position, the underscored initials of E H Until he could be preceded by the first flashes of fame he would remain in obscurity He would not even let Mrs Arnot knohere he was hiding, so that she ht send to him his personal effects left at her house Indeed, he had no place for them now, and was, besides, ood the proud words he had spoken If, in the face of such tre but his hands and brain, win again all and more than he had lost, he could compel the respect and admiration of those who had witnessed his downfall and consequent victorious struggle

Was the girl who had inspired his sudden, and, as he had supposed, "undying" passion, forgotten during these trying days? Yes, to a great extent His self-love was greater than his love for Laura Roer a proper object of her scorn She had rejected hi vices," and such he had apparently shown hi to have dipped his pen in his own blood, and have written away his life, if thereby he could have filled her with aded it to hiest i her that he was not what she now regarded hi, true affection for any one, and thoughts of the pretty maiden wounded his pride more than his heart