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"Good-by, Lady Maria," the girl replied, with deeply sincere eyes. "You've been very kind to me." "Fiddlesticks," said Lady Maria. "I like you. Now run away, the pair of you." "Right, Aunt," said Chevenix, and crooked his arm. After a decent interval, in which we may suppose formal visits exchanged between Charles Street and Great Cumberland Place, Sanchia set up her rest in the former mansion.

Almost at the same time, the door of the cottage opened, and Ronald and the Major appeared upon the threshold with a lantern. As they so stood, they were almost immediately below me, strongly illuminated, and within easy earshot. The Major pacified the dog, who took instead to low, uneasy growling intermingled with occasional yelps. 'Good thing I brought Towzer! said Chevenix.

"I told her," Ingram said, "that I was in love with her, and promised to behave and so I should have, only " "Only you didn't, old chap." "She loved me there was no stopping it then. The thing was done. Mind you, her people knew it all, too." "The mother always was a fool," Chevenix agreed. "And she liked you." "I know she did. I took care of that." "Not a bit of it, my boy," the other objected.

The observant Chesterfield, who continued through life warmly attached to the country in which his name was remembered with so much affection, expresses to his friend, Chevenix, Bishop of Waterford, in 1751, his satisfaction at hearing "that Ireland improves daily, and that a spirit of industry spreads itself, to the great increase of trade and manufactures."

As I was so standing a hand was laid upon my shoulder, and I turned about. It was Major Chevenix, dressed for the evening, and his neckcloth really admirably folded. I never denied the man could dress. "Ah!" said he, "I thought it was you, Champdivers. So he's gone?" I nodded. "Come, come," said he, "you must cheer up. Of course it's very distressing, very painful and all that.

He was never alone, it appeared, for she was with him constantly, a vivifying principle. He had ensphered her in light; she was unassailable his fly in amber. Ingram, Chevenix, all Wanless, might have daily converse with her, and one might grudge her her self-sufficiency, and another see her a pretty girl in a mess.

Speaking, however, as your family adviser" and he laid enough stress on it to convince me that there was no love lost between him and the interloping Chevenix "I suggest that we gain nothing by protracting this scene in the face of a crowded assembly. Are you for the card-room, madam?"

It was plain to Morosine that she was very much concerned with this intelligence. She simply sat there, staring at Chevenix, shaking, moving her white lips. She was as white as chalk and her eyes burned black in her face. What on earth who on earth ? He couldn't for the life of him make it out. He had never heard of the man.

It was when I was at Gorston with Grace Mauleverer trying to save water-lilies from drowning in green scum. He Mr. Senhouse came along in his cart, and saw me, and lent me his bed for a raft and worked it himself. That was the first time I ever saw him " she ended softly in a sigh: "before anything happened." Chevenix listened, nodding at the photograph.

There is a deuce of a nasty drawback to the experiment that what might have remained private between us two becomes public property. 'Oh, well! said I, with a laugh, 'anything rather than a doctor! I cannot bear the breed. His last words had a good deal relieved me, but I was still far from comfortable. Major Chevenix smoked awhile, looking now at his cigar ash, now at me.