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Melbury, after much alarm and consideration, had decided not to follow

her either He syht, ic color of the antecedent events that he had been a

greatchecked his instinct to interfere He prayed

and trusted that she had got into no danger on her way (as he supposed)

to Sherton, and thence to Exbury, if that were the place she had gone

to, forbearing all inquiry which the strangeness of her departure would

have made natural A few months before this tinitude of this would have aroused hiation

It was in the same spirit that he had tacitly assented to Fitzpiers's

domicilation there The two men had not met face to face, but Mrs

Melbury had proposed herself as an intereon's

re-entrance co was provisional, and

nobody asked questions Fitzpiers had coinated in circumstances hereafter to

be explained; his self-hu was

deliberate; and as soon as a call reached hi ood as he could

with the least possible fuss or show He therefore refrained fro, and set out for

One-chimney Hut on foot, as Grace had done