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Arthur had been spending the evening at Prospect Hill The Hethertons

had returned and would remain till after the fifteenth, and since they

had co there than it had

been before, with only his bride-elect to entertain him Sure of Dr

Bellaly witty

and brilliant, while, now that it was settled, the colonel was too

thoroughly a gentleracious to his future

nephew; and Mrs Hetherton was always polite and lady-like, so that

the rector looked forith a good deal of interest to the evenings

he usually gave to Lucy, who, though satisfied to have hiht, still preferred the olden time, when she had him all to herself

and was not disquieted with the fear that she did not know enough for

hi with Fanny and her

uncle of things she did not understand

This evening, however, the fa so hard to coibly of books she had been reading and looking so lovely in

her winter cri so sweetly affectionate and

confiding, that for once since his engagement Arthur was more than

content, and returned her modest caresses with a warmth he had not