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It was a day of rather bright weather for the season Miss Melbury

went out for aan

hour's leisure, offered to ith her The breeze was fresh and

quite steady, filtering itself through the denudedthe point of each ivy-leaf on the

trunks scratch its underlying neighbor restlessly Grace's lips sucked

in this native air of hers like milk They soon reached a place where

the wood ran down into a corner, and went outside it towards

co looked round about, they were

intending to re-enter the copse when a fox quietly e brush, trotted past them tamely as a domestic cat, and

disappeared amid so, after watching the ani somewhere near"

Farther up they saw in thehither and

thither, as if there were little or no scent that day Soon divers

members of the hunt appeared on the scene, and it was evident froeneral

puzzle-headedness as to the whereabouts of the intended victim In a

with acteonic

excite a few steps in advance, he addressed her,