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in the darkBut listen, dear Felice! Can you hide me till I am well?

Whatever comes, I can be seen in Hintock no one, you know--and after this I would not care to recover it if I

could"

By this tian to blind her Where were now her

discreet plans for sundering their lives forever? To administer to hile thought The

first step was to hide him, and she asked herself where A place

occurred to her -rooed to reht by leaning upon her on one side and a walking-stick on

the other, they went thus in slow march out of the rooallery, pausing whenever he

required rest, and thence up a smaller staircase to the least used part

of the house, where she unlocked a door Within was a lu abandoned furniture of all descriptions, built up in piles

which obscured the light of the s, and formed between them nooks

and lairs in which a person would not be discerned even should an eye

gaze in at the door The articles were ed

to the previous owner of the house, and had been bought in by the late

Mr Char fashion, and the tastes of a

young wife, had caused theeon