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'It would not kill him a day sooner'

'You would not dare to do it,for my children But you need not look like that, Henrietta I a to hih to understand of what infinite service hehimself' Henrietta would fain have answered that their cousin was quick enough for anything, but was by far too honest to take part in such a scheme as that proposed She refrained, however, and was silent There was no syinning to understand the tortuous mazes of manoeuvres in which her mother's mind had learned to work, and to dislike and almost to despise them But she felt it to be her duty to abstain from rebukes

In the afternoon Lady Carbury, alone, had herself driven into Beccles that she raph to her son 'You are to dine at Caversham on Monday Come on Saturday if you can She is there' Lady Carbury had e The feht too probably understand as the 'she' as spoken of as being at Cavershaht understand also the project, and speak of it publicly But then it was essential that Felix should kno great and certain was the opportunity afforded to him He had promised to come on Saturday and return on Monday,--and, unless warned, would too probably stick to his plan and throw over the Longestaffes and their dinner-party Again if he were told to come si her on the Sunday It was Lady Carbury's desire to get hi surely would so tend to bring hie that the heiress was already in the neighbourhood Then she returned, and shut herself up in her bedroom, and worked for an hour or two at a paper which she riting for the 'Breakfast Table' Nobody should ever accuse her justly of idleness And afterwards, as she walked by herself round and round the garden, she revolved in her ht happen she would persevere If the Carburys were unfortunate their misfortunes should come from no fault of hers Henrietta passed the whole day alone She did not see her cousin fro-roo every hly entitled to demand at any rate kindness at her hand! Her arded as all but dead and buried, simply because of his love for her Could it be true that his constancy was such that he would never marry unless she would take his hand? She came to think of him with more tenderness than she had ever felt before, but, yet, she would not tell herself she loved hiive herself to hiood; but she was sure that she did not love him