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But when they got within doors he picked her up in his arht-hearted childish creature you are Your courage under misfortune shall be a lesson to me, but I cannot, I cannot bear to see it"

Here the tears stood suddenly in his eyes, and he lay down upon the otto no heed to her until presently he was aroused by her licking his cheek and his ear

After tea she led hi room and scratched at the door till he opened it, for this was part of the house which he had shut up, thinking three or four roo of it Then it seemed she would have him play to her on the pianoforte: she led him to it, nay, what is more, she would herself pick out the ue of Handel's, then one of Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words, and then "The Diver," and then music from Gilbert and Sullivan; but each piece of ayer than the last one Thus they sat happily engrossed for perhaps an hour in the candle light until the extre and drove them downstairs to the fire Thus did she admirably co when he woke he was distressed when he found that she was not in the bed with hi breakfast she hardly listened when he spoke, and then i at the dove

Mr Tebrick sat silently looking out offor some tiraph of his wife taken soon after their wedding Now he gazed and gazed upon those familiar features, and now he lifted his head and looked at the anihed then bitterly, the first and last tihed at his wife's transforh was sour and painful to hiraph into little pieces, and scattered the to hi to the vixen he saw that she was still staring at the caged bird, and as he looked he saw her lick her chops

He took the bird into the next rooe door and set it free, saying as he did so: "Go, poor bird! Fly from this wretched house while you still remember your mistress who fed you fro for her now Farewell, poor bird! Farewell! Unless," he added with a s like Noah's dove"