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And yet matrimony, as concerned hihts that afternoon, when, because he saw that it

pleased Anna to have hi in

his unselfish heart that what he said in his praise ive him a different answer This

was the second day of Thornton Hastings' acquaintance with Anna

Ruthven, but as the days went on, bringing the usual routine of life

at Newport, the drives, the rides, the pleasant piazza talks, and the

quiet ht ras caness to surrender, even to Arthur

Leighton, the beautiful girl who pleased him better than any one he

had known

Mrs Meredith's plans orking well, and so, though the autumn

days had come, and one after another the devotees of fashion were

dropping off, she lingered on, and Thornton Hastings still rode and

walked with Anna Ruthven, until there caht when they wandered

farther than usual froht

of land which overlooked the placid waters, where the ht, and for a while they

listened in silence to theup which came in a few days when the hotel was to be closed,

and wondered if next year they would coed