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And so it chanced; which in those dark

And fireless halls was quite a,

Did we not kno s

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Aurelia rode hoirdle, and hating the task her sister had forced on her She felt as if her heedless avowals had been high treason to her husband; and yet Harriet was her elder, and those assurances that as a true woman she was bound to clear up the mystery, made her cheeks burn with shame, and her heart thrill with the deter to know the face of one who so loved her was freshly awakened

She was strongly inclined to tell hih to be aware that half a dozen searching questions would draw out the whole confession of her own co as this would be, she longed for the opportunity Here, however, she was checked in her meditations by a stumble of her horse, which proved to have lost a shoe It was necessary to leave the short cut, and e, and when the h road

She thus came home much later than had been expected; Ju for her, and greeted her eagerly The supper was already on the table for her, and she had only just given Fay and Letty the cakes and coht the e that his ued, would coly, she ca only taken off her hat and arranged her hair

She felt guilty, and dreaded the being questioned, yet longed to s passed, and then Mr Belamour said, "I heard your horse hoofs come in late You were detained?"

She explained about the shoe, and a few sentences were passing about her sister when she detected a ether with a hesitation in the reood nature

Quite irrelevantly ca voice, "Where is my dearest life?"

"Sir, sir!" she cried, driven at last to bay, "what is this? Are you one or two?"

"One with you, my sweetest life! Your own--your husband!"