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"You knoas"--reproachfully

"I know nothing of the kind"--hotly "I only know that I have always loved you and only you, and that I shall never love another"

"You forget--Dora Talbot!" says Florence, in a very low tone "I think, Sir Adrian, your late coldness to her has been neither kind nor just"

"I have never been either colder or warmer to Dora Talbot than I have been to any other ordinary acquaintance of mine," returns Sir Adrian, with considerable excitement "There is surely a terrible mistake so in her agitation, "that you never spoke of love to Dora?"

"Certainly I spoke of love--of my love for you," he declares vehe for Mrs Talbot but the most ordinary friendship seems incredible to iven for uest tenderness for any other woe since first we met"

"Yet there was your love-letter to her--I read it with my own eyes!" declares Florence faintly

"I never wrote Mrs Talbot a line in my life," says Sir Adrian, more and more puzzled

"You will tellher hand in the li hotly with shanation

"You did not," he declares vehe to accuse me? I never wrote to her, and I never kissed her hand"

"It is better for us to discuss thisfrom her seat "And for the future I can not--will not--read to you here in theLet us make an end of this false friendship now at once and forever"

She , overtakes her, and, putting his back against the door, so bars her egress

He has been forbidden exertion of any kind, and now this unusual exciteht a color to his wan cheeks and a brilliancy to his eyes Both these changes in his appearance however only serve to betray the actual weakness to which, ever since his cruel imprisonment, he has been a victim

Miss Delmaine's heart smites her She would have reasoned with hie, but he interrupts her