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Aureliavery foolish

"It was not you as foolish," was the reply; and though her hand was retained it was evidently for the sake of war it in the startlingwhich her coan to be restored, and some inquiries whether she were quite recovered; to which she replied with eager affirain, now that all was in its faain "It is a hard and cruel fate that ht to impose on you"

"Oh, do not say so, sir I---"

"No," he interrupted somewhat hastily, "do not try to deny it, my child; I know better than you can what it would ae you and preserving you for better days"

"I kno kind you are, sir"

"And you trust me?"

"Indeed I do"

"That is all I ask I shall never be a husband to you ive me now, na, without seeinglife, for a time at least?"

"You know, sir, how glad I always a that strange fervour "I will do an, with a thrill of deep feeling in his voice; but checking himself he continued, "All I ask is patience and trust for a time--for a time--you promise it!"

"With all my heart," said Aurelia

"I will use my best endeavours to requite that trust, my child," he said "Is not the Christian ord faith, not sight? It must be yours likewise"

"I hope so," she said, scarcely understanding

He then interrogated her somewhat closely as to the letters which had prepared her for the proposal; and as Aurelia was far too si under cross-examination, Mr Belamour soon found out what her Ladyship's threats and promises had been

"The Manor House?" he said "That is the original nucleus of the property which had hitherto gone to the heir male?"