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But, alas, she thought therebetter than such worship; and, therefore, when Felix Carbury came in her ith his beautiful oval face, and his rich brown colour, and his bright hair and lovelywhich she mistook for love; and when he sneaked over to her a second and a third tiht ht of John Cruh she was an utter fool, she was not a fool without a principle She was norant; but she did understand that there was a degradation which it behoved her to avoid She thought, as the ht fly into the flas After her fashion she was pretty, with long glossy ringlets, which those about the fare round dark eyes, and a clear dark complexion, in which the blood showed itself plainly beneath the soft brown skin She was strong, and healthy, and tall,-- and had a will of her ohich gave infinite trouble to old Daniel Ruggles, her grandfather

Felix Carbury took hiht return by Sheepstone Birches, which was a little copse distant not above half a le of the little wood carass meadohich Sir Felix had remembered when he made his appointment The road was no more than a country lane, unfrequented at all times, and alate in a walk, and then stood awhile looking into the wood He had not stood long before he saw the girl's bonnet beneath a tree standing just outside the wood, in thefor a moment what he would do about his horse, he rode hi, fastened him to a rail which ran down the side of the copse Then he sauntered on till he stood looking down upon Ruby Ruggles as she sat beneath the tree 'I like your i yourself a friend'

'Ain't I a friend, Ruby?'

'A pretty sort of friend, you! When you was going away, you was to be back at Carbury in a fortnight; and that is,--oh, ever so long ago now'

'But I wrote to you, Ruby'