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South acco her

Whatever part, much or little, there may have been in Fitzpiers's

so-called valentine to his wife, he felt a delight as of the bursting

of spring when her brief reply came It was one of the few pleasures

that he had experienced of late years at all rese those of his

early youth He promptly replied that he accepted the conditions, and

named the day and hour at which he would be on the spot she mentioned

A fewthe

well-known hill, which had been the axis of sohis residence at Hintock

The sight of each horet

that seldoht lie open to his future,

the soothing shades of Hintock were forbidden hied for the society of Grace But to lay offerings on her

slighted altar was his first aim, and until her propitiation was

complete he would constrain her in no way to return to him The least

reparation that he could ladly have

made much, would be to let her feel herself absolutely free to choose

between living with him and without him