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Fro a frail phantom of her former equable self she returned in

bounds to a condition of passable philosophy She blooain in the

face in the course of a few days, and ell enough to go about as

usual One day Mrs Melbury proposed that for a change she should be

driven in the gig to Shertonon

other errands Grace had no business whatever in Sherton; but it

crossed her mind that Winterborne would probably be there, and this

On the way she saw nothing of hih the obstructions of Sheep Street, she discerned the

young ht of that ti under his apple-tree on her return froh her fastidiousness Her heart

rose in her throat She abjured all such fastidiousness now Nor did

she forget the last occasion on which she had beheld hi cider in the court-yard of the Earl of Wessex Hotel, while she

was figuring as a fine lady in the balcony above

Grace directed the man to set her down there in the midst, and

immediately went up to her lover Giles had not before observed her,

and his eyes now suppressedly looked his pleasure, without the

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