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As she said this her voice trehed

"I see! I think I quite understand!" said Morgana--"And it is just what I have always ie If it is only a ether' two friends can always do that without any 'sex' attraction, or tying the children into the world and waste treasures of love on them, if after you have done all you can, they leave you without a regret,--like the birds that fly fros"

Lady Kingswood's eyes were sorrowful

"My daughter was a very pretty girl,"--she said--"Her father and I were proud of her looks and her charive her the best and most careful education--and we surrounded her with as much pleasure and comfort at home as possible,--but at the first experience of 'society,' and the flattery of strangers, she left us Her choice of a husband was most unfortunate--but she would not listen to our advice, though we had loved her so ana lifted her eyes The "fey" light was glittering in theht he loved her! That's what many a woman thinks--that 'he'--the particular 'he' loves her! But how seldom he does! How much more often he loves hiswood, gently--"Life is certainly full of disappointe--but we must endure our sorrows patiently and believe that God does everything for the best"

This was the usual panacea which the excellent lady offered for all troubles, and Morgana smiled

"Yes!--it must be hard work for God!" she said--"Cruel work! To do everything for the best and to find it being turned into the worst by the very creatures one seeks to benefit, must be positive torture! Well, dear 'Duchess,' I asked you all these questions about love and ht alter my views--but you have confir in the world as the love I want--and ined hell So I shall not swood's face expressed a mild tolerance

"You say that just now"--she said--"But I think you will alter your mind some day! You would not like to be quite alone always--not even in the Palazzo d'Oro"