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Kaleidoscopic dreaeon, Grammer Oliver's

skeleton, and the face of Giles Winterborne, brought Grace Melbury to

theof the next day It was fine A north as

blowing--that not unacceptable compromise between the atales of the west quarter

She looked froht of the

previous evening, and could just discern through the trees the shape of

the surgeon's house Soht, that

unknown and lonely gentleman seemed to be shorn of much of the interest

which had invested his personality and pursuits in the hours of

darkness, and as Grace's dressing proceeded he faded froh half assured of her father's favor, was

rendered a little restless by Miss Melbury's behavior Despite his dry

self-control, he could not help looking continually from his own door

towards the tience therefroth justified by the

appearance of two figures, that of Mr Melbury himself, and Grace

beside him They stepped out in a direction towards the densest

quarter of the wood, and Winterborne walked contemplatively behind

theh the tihs had now set in, there were sheltered

hollows amid the Hintock plantations and copses in which athan on windy sue This