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But unhappily she set her affection upon Sir Adrian Dynecourt, with his grand old castle and his princely rent-roll--a "crunitude and worth of which she was not slow to appreciate At first she had not deeard a mere baronet as a suitor, when her unbounded wealth would almost entitle her to a duke But "love," as she discovered later, to her discomfiture, will always "find the way" And one day, quite unexpectedly, it dawned upon her that therebetween Florence and Sir Adrian thatin the belief of her own chariven by Sir Adrian, and at the close of the season she and Florence Deluests come to spend a month or two at the old castle at Dynecourt

Mrs Talbot is still young, and, in her style, very pretty; her eyes are languishing and blue as gentian, her hair a soft nut-brown; her lips perhaps are not altogether faultless, being too fine and too closely drawn, but then her er than she really is, and does not forget to make the most of this comfortable fact Indeed, to a casual observer, her cousin looks scarcely her junior

Miss Delmaine is tall, slender, posée more or less, while Mrs Talbot is prettily rounded, petite in every point, and nervously a the past week private theatricals have been suggested Every one is tired of dancing and iven them more than a surfeit of both, and so they have fallen back upon theatricals

The play on which they have decided is Goldsmith's famous production, "She Stoops to Conquer"

Miss Villiers, a pretty girl with yellow hair and char eyes, is to be Constantia Neville; Miss Delh rather young for the part, has consented to play Mrs Hardcastle, under the impression that she looks well in a cap and powdered hair An i man with a hesitation in his speech and a difficulty about the letter "S"--a young s his has been found in the person of Captain Ringwood, a gallant young officer, and one of the "curled darlings" of society