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Didn't you hear the passing bell a-tolling, mum?" "Yes, the wind brought it down the valley; but I did not know whom it was tolling for." "That's who it was," said Dodge. "This is an awfully sad story," cried Mrs. Temperley. Dodge ran his fingers through his hair judicially. "I don't hold with them sort o' goings on for young women," he observed. "Do you hold with them for young men?"

Temperley?" Mrs. Temperley supposed that clever women had something of human nature in them, and valued overmuch what they did not possess. Professor Theobald had perhaps looked for an answer that would have betrayed more of the speaker's secret feelings. "It is the fashion, I know," he said, "to regard woman as an enigma.

Cigars were lighted, and a sense of sociability and enjoyment suffused itself, like a perfume, among the group. Lady Engleton was delighted to see Miss Du Prel again. She did so want to continue the hot discussion they were having at the Red House that afternoon, when Mr. Temperley would be so horridly logical. He smiled and twisted his moustache.

There was also another, Rev. J. Temperley Grey, who visited Newman constantly in his last illness, and who said of his final conversion these words, in the "In Memoriam" address he gave at Newman's funeral:

I think Lady Engleton finds it fairly inspiring." "Lady Engleton is not Mrs. Temperley." "I doubt not that same speech has already done duty as a compliment to Lady Engleton." "You are incorrigible!" "I wish you would make it when she is present," said Hadria, "and see us both bow!" The Professor laughed delightedly.

He gave his view of life and happiness, his philosophy and religion. Hadria lazily agreed. She lay under a singular spell. The bizarre old music smote still upon the ear. She felt as if she were in the thrall of some dream whose events followed one another, as the scenes of a moving panorama unfold themselves before the spectators. Temperley began to plead his cause.

Miss Temperley's eyes were bent on the carpet; Hadria's on a patch of blue sky that could be seen through a side street, opposite. "If you would use your ability on behalf of your sex instead of against it, Henriette, women would have cause to bless you, for all time!" "Ah! if you did but know it, I am using what ability I have on their behalf," Miss Temperley replied.

Fred glared enquiry. "I am afraid she has been led into accepting Hubert Temperley." Fred opened his mouth and breathed deep. "Stuff! Hadria would as soon think of selling her soul to the devil." "Oh, she is quite capable of that too," said Algitha, shaking her head. "Well, I'm blowed," cried Fred. Not long after this, the guests began to disperse. Mrs.

"I believe that some day you will see things with different eyes," said Henriette. The doll fell with a great crash, into the fender among the fire-irons, and there was a little burst of laughter. Miss Temperley passed through the door, at the same instant, with great dignity.

Hadria was in a happy mood, for her mother had so far overcome her prejudice against Miss Du Prel, as to ask her to join the party. The festivity had, therefore, lost its usual quality of melancholy. It was a warm afternoon, and every one seemed cheerful "and almost intelligent," Hadria commented. The first words that Mr. Temperley uttered, made her turn to him, in surprise.