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"Would it be an unpardonable infraction of etiquette if ere to

walk home?" questioned Rosa of Mr Chilton, when they were out of

Mr Mason's hearing "The night is very htly shod for the pave-rooe"

"Then I will be answerable for the breach of etiquette, should it

ever be found out," was the reply, and Rosa disappeared into the

tiring-roeht for Decehted and bland as

October, and neither manifested a disposition to accelerate the

saunter into which they had fallen at their first step beyond the

portico Rosa dropped her rattling tone, and began to talk seriously

and sensibly of the scene they had left, the flatness of fashionable

society after the freshness of novelty had passed from it, and her

preference for home life and tried friends

"Yet I always rate these the more truly after a peep at a different

sphere," she said "Our Old Virginia country-house is never so dear

and fair at any other ti at