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"Do you then really suffer?" asked Morrel quickly

"Oh, it eneral uneasiness, that is all I have lostto get accusto" Noirtier did not lose a word of what Valentine said "And what treatular complaint?"

"A very si a spoonful of the randfather When I say one spoonful, I began by one--now I take four Grandpapa says it is a panacea" Valentine smiled, but it was evident that she suffered

Maxiazed silently at her She was very beautiful, but her usual pallor had increased; her eyes were enerally white like mother-of-pearl, nowa yellowish hue Fro e and deep interest the young girl, absorbed by her affection, and he also, like Morrel, followed those traces of inward suffering which was so little perceptible to a common observer that they escaped the notice of every one but the grandfather and the lover

"But," said Morrel, "I thought this mixture, of which you now take four spoonfuls, was prepared for M Noirtier?"

"I know it is very bitter," said Valentine; "so bitter, that all I drink afterwards appears to have the sahter "Yes, grandpapa," said Valentine; "it is so Just now, before I caared water; I left half, because it seen that he wished to speak Valentine rose to fetch the dictionary Noirtier watched her with evident anguish In fact, the blood was rushing to the young girl's head already, her cheeks were beco any of her cheerfulness, "this is singular! I can't see! Did the sun shine in ainst the

"The sun is not shining," said Morrel, more alarmed by Noirtier's expression than by Valentine's indisposition He ran towards her The young girl smiled "Cheer up," said she to Noirtier "Do not be alar, and has already passed away But listen! Do I not hear a carriage in the court-yard?" She opened Noirtier's door, ran to ain the passage, and returned hastily "Yes," said she, "it is Madahter, who have come to call on us Good-by;--I must run away, for they would send here for randpapa, Maximilian; I promise you not to persuade them to stay"