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When Melbury stepped up close to the shelter, he for the first time

perceived that the doctor was present, and warmly appreciated

Fitzpiers's invitation to sit down on the log beside hi you here," he said,

obviously hter knows you are so nigh at hand I don't expect she do"

He looked out towards the gig wherein Grace sat, her face still turned

in the opposite direction "She doesn't see us Well, never mind: let

her be"

Grace was indeed quite unconscious of Fitzpiers's propinquity She was

thinking of so which had little connection with the scene before

her--thinking of her friend, lost as soon as found, Mrs Char scenes she was possibly

enjoying at that very moment in other climes, to which Grace herself

had hoped to be introduced by her friend'slady would return to Hintock during the summer, and whether

the acquaintance which had been nipped on the last occasion of her

residence there would develop on the next

Melbury told ancient ti them directly

to Fitzpiers, and obliquely to the men, who had heard the, "I think I'll take