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She paused to allow the murmured exclamations of her hearers to subside,--then she went on--"You can easily understand that if aty it is capable ofto be said, against the possibility of 'elelorious ht!--just as if I could slip out of s!"

She lifted her fair arms upith a kind of expansive rapture,--the h the delicate tissue of her gar frostily on the diaswood's very placid nature was conscious of an unusual thrill, half of surprise and half of fear, at the quite "other world" appearance she thus presented

"You have rather the look of a butterfly!" she said, kindly--"One of those beautiful tropical things--or a fairy!--only we don't knohat fairies are like as we have never seen any!"

Morgana laughed, and let her ar eyes of the two ht,--for Sicily,"--she said "But it would be lovelier in California!"

"In California!" echoed Rivardi--"Why California?"

"Why? Oh, I don't knohy! I often think of California--it is so vast! Sicily is a speck of garden-land coreat hills and spreads a wide sheet of silver over the Pacific Ocean you begin to realise a soet to the 'beyond' yourself if you have the will to try!"

Just then the soft slow tolling of a bell struck through the air and Don Aloysius prepared to take his leave

"The 'beyond' calls to --"I have been too long absent Will you ith ly!" and the Marchese bowed over Lady Kingswood's hand as he bade her "Good night"

"I will accoana, suddenly--"and then--when you are both gone I shall wander a little by swood looked dubiously at her, but was too tactful to offer any objection such as the "danger of catching cold" which the ordinary duenna would have suggested, and which would have seeht Besides, if Morgana chose to "wander by the light of the ia on to the velvety turf beloith an aerial gracebetween the tall figures of the Marchese and Don Aloysius like a drea her as she descended the garden terraces and gradually disappeared a the trees, was ie sense of the supernatural,--as if sos were visiting the world by a mere chance She was a little asha,--and after a few minutes' hesitation she decided to retire within the house and to her own apartana would be better pleased to find her so gone than waiting for her return like a sentinel on guard She gave a lingering look at the exquisite beauty of the h-"What it would be if one were young once more!"