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Dora's fair bros darker and darker as she watches Florence, and notes the shts her beautiful face as she makes some answer to one of Sir Adrian's sallies Where is Dynecourt, that he has not been on the spot to prevent this dance, she wonders She grows angry, and would have stamped her little foot with i her vexation

As she is inwardly anathe, and, the dance being at an end, rely removes her hand from Sir Adrian's arm, and lays it upon Arthur's Most disdainfully she moves aith him, and suffers him to lead her to another part of the room And when she dances with him it is with evident reluctance, as he knows by the fact that she visibly shrinks from him when he encircles her waist with his ar up to Dora, solicits her hand for this dance

"You are not engaged, I hope?" he says anxiously It is a kind of wretched comfort to him to be near Florence's true friend If not the rose, she has at least some connection with it

"I a her lihty ottenbarren spots upon ed Aafter the impossible people," says Adrian evasively

"Poor Florence! Is she so very i to reproach him

"I was not speaking of Miss Del hotly "She is the least ie to pass one's time with her"

"Yet it is with her you have passed the last hour that you hint has been devoted to bores," returns Dora quietly This is a mere feeler, but she throws it out with such an air of certainty that Sir Adrian is completely deceived, and believes her acquainted with his tête-à-tête with Florence in the diain, "your cousin was rather upset by the acting, I think, and I just stayed with her until she felt equal to joining us all again"