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'There is truth in what you say;--but it isn't true noas I to love you when I had seen so little of you? I do love you now'

'Then you needn't;--for it isn't any good'

'I do love you now, and I think you'd find that I should be truer to you than that felloouldn't take the trouble to go down to Liverpool with you'

'You don't knohy he didn't go'

'Well;--perhaps I do But I did not coo, Lord Nidderdale?' She asked the question with an altered tone and an altered face 'If you really know, you ht not to do But he ought to tell you Do you really in your heart believe that he means to co 'I do love hiood-natured You are ood-natured than he is But he did like me You never did;--no; not a bit It isn't true I ain't a fool I know No;--go away I won't let you now I don't care what he is; I'll be true to hio on like that because papa and mamma let you come here I didn't let you come I don't want you to come No;--I won't say any kind word to you I love Sir Felix Carbury better--than any person--in all the world There! I don't knohether you call that kind, but it's true'

'Say good-bye to ood-bye Good-bye, my lord; and don't come any more'

'Yes, I shall Good-bye, Marie You'll find the difference between me and him yet' So he took his leave, and as he sauntered away he thought that upon the whole he had prospered, considering the extre on his suit 'She's quite a different sort of girl from what I took her to be,' he said to himself 'Upon my word, she's awfully jolly'

Marie, when the intervieas over, walked about the roorees that Sir Felix Carbury was not at all points quite as nice as she had thought him Of his beauty there was no doubt; but then she could trust hiood quality Why did he not come to her? Why did he not show some pluck? Why did he not tell her the truth? She had quite believed Lord Nidderdale when he said that he knew the cause that had kept Sir Felix fro to Liverpool And she had believed him, too, when he said that it was not his business to tell her But the reason, let it be what it ht, must, if known, be prejudicial to her love Lord Nidderdale was, she thought, not at all beautiful He had a coh cheek bones, no especial co eyes,--not at all an Adonis such as her iination had painted But if he had only ht that she would have submitted herself to be cut in pieces for him