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"I wish I had soht, but from the scores

of her flirtations, and even offers, for she had not lacked for thes had been enlisted in

ever so slight a degree, until she res, who

for one whole week had paid her much attentions as made her drive

round on purpose to look at the house on Madison Square where the

future Mrs Hastings was to live But his coolness afterwards, and his

co her think

she hated him, as she had said to Anna Noever, as she

remembered the drive and the house, she nestled closer to Arthur, and

told hiown as

she told it, and never dreaht how mysterious were God's ways, and wondered that he

had not reversed the s

rather than to him, who did not half deserve her

"I kno I never cared a bit for Thornton Hastings, though I ht

if he had not been so o; then suddenly turning to the rector, she added: "I shall