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In the afternoon of the day on which Lady Carbury was expected, he wandered about the place thinking of all this How infinitely better it would be that he should have an heir of his own! Hoonderfully beautiful would the world be to him if at last his cousin would consent to be his wife! Hoearily insipid must it be if no such consent could be obtained froht much of her welfare too In very truth he did not like Lady Carbury He saw through her character, judging her with alood things for others rather than for herself; but she was essentially worldly, believing that good could coht in certain conditions be better than truth, that shaht do the work of true service, that a strong house ht be built upon the sand! It was lairl he loved should be subjected to this teaching, and live in an atmosphere so burdened with falsehood Would not the touch of pitch at last defile her? In his heart of hearts he believed that she loved Paul Montague; and of Paul hi to fear evil What but a sham could be a man who consented to pretend to sit as one of a Board of Directors to ues as Lord Alfred Grendall and Sir Felix Carbury, under the absolute control of such a one as Mr Augustus Meleance? What a life it would be for Henrietta Carbury were she toto becoht one day be wealthy and the next a beggar,--a city adventurer, who of all men was to him the vilest and ue, but such was the life which he feared the youngfor hih the rooms which the two ladies were to occupy As their host, a host without a wife or s were comfortable, but it may be doubted whether he would have been so careful had thealone In the ss were all white, and the rooht a white rose fro table Surely she would knoho put it there Then he stood at the open , looking down upon the lawn, gazing vacantly for half an hour, till he heard the wheels of the carriage before the front door During that half-hour he resolved that he would try again as though there had as yet been no repulse