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Mabel went on with her work, and did not reply

"I have had uncoes in her

intercourse with us, since I heard this news," continued Mrs

Sutton, edging her chair toward her niece, and dropping her voice

"I a of her cruelty to Alfred back

to that September she spent here--to the latter part of it, I mean

Little scenes co uneasiness

then I shall never forget, for instance, how she eyed you, the

Winston came home so unexpectedly"

And she described the incident recorded in the latter part of our

opening chapter

"Can it be," she pursued, "that she had even then designs upon the

man she is about to marry? She knew all the circumstances of the

trouble that ensued, and if disposed to be meddleso," said Mabel briefly

"But she pumped me pretty effectually," confessed the aunt

sha her a

synopsis of the case--she being your intileam of pensive amusement crossed Mabel's face She knew

too well the nature of her aunt's "synopsis" to doubt that Rosa was

conversant with every phase of the affair, concerning which her own