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Melbury sat with his hands resting on the fa he had seen before he enjoyed its use

The scene to hiic vision that travelled with hih this

vision the incidents of the leah the high-colored scenes of a

stainedHe waited thus an hour, an hour and a half, two hours

He began to look pale and ill, whereupon the butler, who calass of wine Melbury roused himself and said, "No, no

Is she al breakfast," said the butler "She will soon see

you now I a up to tell her you are here"

"What! haven't you told her before?" said Melbury

"Oh no," said the other "You see you ca: Mrs Char-roo from the front staircase, and she entered where he stood

At this tie and ht almost have been taken for the typical feh she was really notno fire in the room, she came in with a shawl thrown loosely

round her shoulders, and obviously without the least suspicion that

Melbury had called upon any other errand than timber Felice was,

indeed, the only woman in the parish who had not heard the ru in a fool's paradise in

respect of that ruh not in respect of the weaknesses