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The intersection of his temporal orbit with Mrs Charmond's for a day

or two in the past had created a sentimental interest in her at the

time, but it had been so evanescent that in the ordinary onward roll of

affairs he would scarce ever have recalled it again To find her here,

however, in these soone and transitory tenderness to indescribable proportions

On entering Little Hintock he found hi it in a neay--from the Hintock House point of view rather than froone to bed, and as he went

up-stairs he heard the snore of the ti, and turned into the passage coe access of sadness A light was burning for hih in bed, was not asleep In a moment her

syar, is she very seriously hurt?"

Fitzpiers had so entirely lost sight of Mrs Charmond as a patient that

he was not on the instant ready with a reply

"Oh no," he said "There are no bones broken, but she is shaken I aain to-morrow"

Another inquiry or two, and Grace said, "Did she ask for me?"