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Full of this post hoc argu of other possible reasons and unreasons for a wo that his Grace was attractive, he

quite forgot that Mrs Charreat pretensions to beauty

In his simple estimate, an attractive woman attracted all around

So it was settled in his ers at the unlucky Winterborne's was the cause of her rievous loss, as he deemed it, in the direction of Hintock House

"'Tis a thousand pities!" he would repeat to hi

her for conscience' sake!"

It was onehis

darkened thejust as

they finished breakfast Looking up, they saw Giles in personhis neck forward, as he had been doing for

soh theGrace had been

the first to see him, and involuntarily exclaimed, "There he is--and a

new horse!"

On their faces as they regarded Giles ritten their suspended

thoughts and co hih those old panes But he saw nothing: his features just noere, for a wonder, lit up with a red smile at some other idea So

they rose from breakfast and went to the door, Grace with an anxious,

wistful manner, her father in a reverie, Mrs Melbury placid and

inquiring "We have come out to look at your horse," she said