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"She fears that my old-time passion may revive, and she would teach me to put a watch at the entrance of its sepulchre," he at length concluded; "she little thinks that iant that costsimprisonment"

But Laura understood him much better than he did her Her htforward effort to be honest Of her own free will, and without even the slightest effort on the part of her uncle and aunt to incline her toward the wealthy and distinguished Mr Beaumont, she had accepted all his attentions, and had accepted the man hihtest ground to find fault with him, for, from the first, both in conduct and ram which announced Mr Poland's death was received, he tried to coant and sombre, that, in spite of Laura's wishes to think otherwise, they struck her like an elegiac address that had been carefully prearranged and studied; and when the tidings of poor little Bertha's death caht his first little address so perfect that he could do no better than to repeat it, as one ht use an appropriate burial service on all occasions Hein his power," as he often said But as in his power? As telegra of death, of desperate illness, and uncertain life, of death again, of manly help, of woan to beat in quick, short, passionate throbs Bat it would see could ever disturb the even rhythm of Beau his mind to all that was ht to her froee music for the piano extant, and she quite surprised hi with sudden passion that she could not and would not play a note of it

In her deep sorrow and deeper anxiety, in her strange and miserable unrest, which had its hidden root in a cause not yet understood, she turned to hiave her abundant opportunity to seek it, for Laura was the most beautiful object he had ever seen; and therefore, to feast his eye and gratify his ear, he spent rew drearily weary of him But no matter when or how often she would look into his face for quick, heartfelt appreciation, she saith instinctive certainty that, more than lover, more than friend, and eventually, more than husband, he was, and ever would be, a connoisseur When she s her Whatever she did or said was constantly being looked at and studied from an aesthetic standpoint by this man, whose fastidious taste she had thus far satisfied More than once she had found herself asking: "Suppose I should lose my beauty, ould he do?" and the instinctive answer of her heart was: "He would honorably try to keep all his pledges, but would look the other way"