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present, therefore, he si slighted wrought ale in Melbury's nature No enuous countryenuousness has

been abused Melbury's heretofore confidential candor towards his

gentlemanly son-in-laas displaced by a feline stealth that did

injury to his every action, thought, and mood He knew that a woman

once given to a man for life took, as a rule, her lot as it came and

made the best of it, without external interference; but for the first

tienerally should be so Moreover,

this case was not, he argued, like ordinary cases Leaving out the

question of Grace being anything but an ordinary woman, her peculiar

situation, as it were in ether with the loneliness of Hintock, ical e

circle of friends to fall back upon Wisely or unwisely, and whatever

other fathers did, he resolved to fight his daughter's battle still

Mrs Charns of life, so quietly had she reentered it He went to church at

Great Hintock one afternoon as usual, there being no service at the