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'If you wish it, Roger, ill return to London I shall find it hard to explain to Hetta;--but ill go'

'No; I certainly do not wish that'

'But you have said such hard things! How are we to stay? You speak of Felix as though he were all bad' She looked at hiet from him some contradiction of this, some retractation, some kindly word; but it hat he did think, and he had nothing to say She could bear much She was not delicate as to censure ie before, and was prepared to endure more Had he found fault with herself, or with Henrietta, she would have put up with it, for the sake of benefits to coiven it the ht not have been deserved But for her son she was prepared to fight If she did not defend hier, that we should have troubled you with our visit, but I think that we had better go You are very harsh, and it crushes me'

'I have notfor his--prey, and that he is to be brought here to be near--his prey What can be more harsh than that? At any rate, you should remember that I am his er began to be ashamed of himself, and to think that he had spoken unkind words And yet he did not kno to recall theret it o in no very hard the world is! I ca to find peace and sunshine, and there has come a storm at once'

'You asked ed to speak You cannot think that I meant to offend you' They walked on in silence till they had reached the door leading froarden into the house, and here he stopped her 'If I have been over hot with you, letyour pardon,' She siveness; and then she essayed to pass on into the house 'Pray do not speak of going, Lady Carbury'

'I think I will go to my room now My head aches so that I can hardly stand'

It was late in the afternoon,--about six,--and according to his daily custoone round to the offices to see his men as they came from their work, but he stood still for a few moments on the spot where Lady Carbury had left hie and there seated himself on the parapet Could it really be that she hter with her? Was it thus that he was to part with the one huhtthat a man in his own house was bound to exercise a courtesy towards his guests sweeter, softer, uests those of his own name were the best entitled to such courtesy at Carbury He held the place in trust for the use of others But if there were one ae from care, not an abode of trouble, on whose behalf, were it possible, he would make the very air softer, and the flowers sweeter than their wont, to whoue, that of his there, she was the mistress, whether she would condescend to love him or no,--that one was his cousin Hetta And now he had been told by his guest that he had been so rough to her that she and her daughter must return to London!