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Mrs Charnation on

co Melbury's story; hot and cold by turns, she had murmured,

"Leave me, leave me!" But as he seean to influence her, and when he ceased speaking she said,

with hurried, hot breath, "What has led you to think this of hter's husband away from her? Some monstrous

calu until now!"

Melbury started, and looked at her simply "But surely, ma'am, you

know the truth better than I?"

Her features became a little pinched, and the touches of powder on her

handsome face for the first time showed themselves as an extrinsic

film "Will you leave ested a guilty conscience "This is so utterly unexpected--you

obtain admission to my presence by misrepresentation--"

"As God's in heaven, ht in reason you would knohy I had co of it Tell ossip is, no ht, and the scandal will right of itself

But pardon ently, to coax

you, beg you to be an by liking her Then you dropped her without a reason, and it

hurt her warm heart ht as the superior, no doubt But if you would consider her