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Her face faded into an aspect of deep distress when she sahat had

happened "Oh no, Giles," she said, with extreme pathos; "certainly

not Why do you--say that when you know better? You EVER will

misunderstand me"

"Indeed, that's not so, Mrs Fitzpiers Can you deny that you felt out

of place at The Three Tuns?"

"I don't know Well, since you make me speak, I do not deny it"

"And yet I have felt at home there these twenty years Your husband

used always to take you to the Earl of Wessex, did he not?"

"Yes," she reluctantly admitted How could she explain in the street

of a market-town that it was her superficial and transitory taste which

had been offended, and not her nature or her affection? Fortunately, or

unfortunately, at thatthe street in search of her, the hour having passed at which he

had been told to take her up Winterborne hailed hi the discourse She entered the vehicle

sadly, and the horse trotted away