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"But you hate Hintock, and everybody and everything in it that you

don't mean to take aith you?"

Fitzpiers contradicted this idea in his most vibratory tones, and she

lapsed into the frivolous archness under which she hid passions of no

, erratic passions, kept down like a

stifled conflagration, but bursting out now here, now there--the only

certain ele its unexpectedness If one

word could have expressed her it would have been Inconsequence She

was a wo in frequent contrasts She

liked mystery, in her life, in her love, in her history To be fair to

her, there was nothing in the latter which she had any great reason to

be ashaht have been proud; but

it had never been fathomed by the honest minds of Hintock, and she

rarely volunteered her experiences As for her capricious nature, the

people on her estates grew accustomed to it, and with thatround odd teenerally, they overnment rather better than they would have done beneath a

ard to the doctor's notion of leaving Hintock, he had

advanced further towards coood-will than he had ad upon what heafter leaving her he went out into the lane, and walked and