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Did either of them think of it, or would either have reckoned it an

oo parting had

presented itself then and there?

Herbert spent the day upon the lounge in the fa-room--a

cosy retreat, between the parlor and the conservatory, which had

been added to the lower floor in the reign of the present queen Her

brother's seizure was no trifling ail spasms of pain defied, for several hours, his wife's

application of the remedies she had found efficacious in former

attacks Her ultimate resort was chloroform, and by the liberal use

of this, relaxation of the tense nerves and a sleep that rese repose were induced by the middle of the afternoon The

weather continued to threaten rain, although none had fallen as yet,

and the wind reat walnut before the endof the narrow apartrove that sheltered the house from

the north winds Mabel, relieved from watchfulness, and to some

extent from anxiety, by her husband's profound sluh, and looked out at the naked liiant--the majestic sway and reel she used to note