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Weeks andfor Winterborne had been passed by Grace

in the soothing monotony of the memorial act to which she and Marty had

devoted themselves Twice a week the pair went in the dusk to Great

Hintock, and, like the two rave with their flowers and their tears Soht that

it was a pity neither one of theiven the world a copy of hiht home to her with such force as this death how

little acquire personal

character While her sie with

the lapse of the autu

had a possible hand in causing it knew little abate these months of the fall and decay of

the leaf Discussion of the almost contemporaneous death of Mrs

Charmond abroad had waxed and waned Fitzpiers had had a ed into the inquiry which followed it, through

the accident of their having parted just before under the influence of

Marty South's letter--the tiny instruht home It seemed to accord ith the

fitful fever of that impassioned worave She had enjoyed but a life-interest in the

estate, which, after her death, passed to a relative of her

husband's--one who knew not Felice, one whose purpose seee of her

On a certain day in February--the cheerful day of St Valentine, in

fact--a letter reached Mrs Fitzpiers, which had beenti at some midland tohere he

had obtained a temporary practice as assistant to some local h he dared not set

theht fit to communicate with her on that day of

tender traditions to inquire if, in the event of his obtaining a