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"I did"

"It ines ines?" pursued Aloysius--"Had you no curiosity about it?"

"I'ed o inside, but I could not!"

Don Aloysius was silent for a nised that Lady Kingswood belonged to the ordinary class of good, kindly woht, particularly of a scientific or reflective nature, would be a kind of physical suffering And how fortunate it is that there are, and alill be such wo happiness around themselves,--and in this way they benefit hus which are frequently "past finding out"

"I understand your feeling";--he said, at last--"And I hardly wonder at your very natural fears Itoo fast and too far--the science of to-day is not tending to reat goal"

A slight sigh escaped hiswood looked at his fine, composed features with deep interest

"Do you think God ently

"It is a dubious question!" he answered--"When we view the majesty and loveliness of nature--we cannot but believe ere intended to enjoy the splendid treasures of beauty freely spread out before us,--then again, if we look back thousands of years and consider the great civilisations of the past that have withered into dust and are now forgotten, we cannot help wondering why there should be such a waste of life for apparently no purpose I speak in a secular sense,--of course my Church has but one reply to doubt, or e call 'despair of God's mercy'--that it is sin We are not permitted to criticise or to question the Divine"

"And surely that is best!" said Lady Kingswood, "and surely you have found happiness, or what is nearest to happiness, in your beautiful Faith?"

His eyes were shadowed by deep gravity

"Miladi, I have never sought happiness," he replied; "Fro the comrades of my youth many started the race of life withpost they had in view--and they tried h wealth, soh love--but I have never chanced to meet one of them as either happy or satisfied MY rope through the darkness for the Great Mind behind the Universe--to drop o' into it, as a drop of rain into the sea--and so--to be content! And in this way I have learned much,--more than I consider myself worthy to know Modern science of the surface kind--(not the true deep discoveries)--has done its best to detach the rain-drop froed my soul!"