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The woods were uninteresting, and Grace stayed in-doors a great deal

She beca e But her seclusion was always broken for the periodical visit

to Winterborne's grave with Marty, which was kept up with pious

strictness, for the purpose of putting snow-drops, primroses, and other

vernal flowers thereon as they ca just outside her father's

garden, which, like the rest of the Hintock enclosures, abutted into

the wood A slight foot-path led along here, forh its boundary hedge Grace was

just about to adopt this

the path, and held up his hand to detain her It was her husband

"I a up out of breath; and there seemed no

reason to doubt his words "I saw you soo in before I could reach you"

"It is a week before the tiht fro"

"My dear, you don't suppose I could wait a fortnight without trying to

get a glih you had declined to ry to know that I have been along this path at dusk three