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Why did you try to deceive me, your nearest and dearest, as to your state of health? But I know it all now. I am not going away from you." "You mean you mean, Charlotte, you will not marry Hinton next week?" "No, father." "Have you told him?" "Yes." "Charlotte, do you know the worst about me?" "I know all about you. I went to see Sir George Anderson this morning.

There was a pause, and then the old man cried, pleadingly: "We'se gwine to lebe dis place; we's gwine up to de house in de mornin'. My ole woman can't come down heah now, case de sojers is always firm', and Mars' Hinton told us to come to de quarters, sah." "I don't believe a word of it, you old rascal. I'll see whether Hinton has ordered you to leave here.

"I was Miss Polly Hinton of the Haymarket Theatre. And perhaps you never heard the name before?" We were compelled to confess that we never had. And the very name of play-actress had filled us both with a kind of vague horror, like the country-bred folk that we were.

"Perhaps you are right," said Hinton: "there is no doubt that one woman can best read the heart of another. What I propose is, that I take the little boy down to Torquay for a few weeks; I can make an excuse to the mother on my own score, and it will not seem so hard for her to send her boy. And the little lad loves me, I believe." "Would it not be best for the mother to take her child herself?"

Was it not this Order which had first been established in my own Somerset, and alone of all Orders in England by a Saint, and which there at Witham and at Hinton, still so fair and lovely, built its first two houses in England, of which all told there were but twelve?

That, however, is the reverse of the truth. The great evil of monogamy, and its most seriously weak point, is its tendency to self-concentration at the expense of the outer world. The devil always comes to a man in the shape of his wife and children, said Hinton.

It would be a meaningless piece of injustice, unlike all that he had gleaned of the previous character of the old man. As to John and Jasper, and their conduct in the affair, that too was difficult to fathom. Jasper had spent the greater portion of his life in Australia. Of his character Hinton knew little; that little he felt was repugnant to him.

It was, he felt sure, far, far more probable that the real will was left untampered with, that the deed of injustice had been done in the hope that no one who knew anything about such matters would ever inquire into it. Hinton could go that very day and set his mind at rest. Why then did he hesitate? Ah! he knew but too well. Never and nearer came that shining form of Happiness.

First, about your own affairs. Lottie has told you what I want you for to-night?" "She has, Mr. Harman. She says that you have been good and generous enough to say you will take away the one slight embargo you made to our marriage that we may become man and wife before I bring you news of that brief." "Yes, Hinton: that is what I said to her this morning: I repeat the same to you to-night.

Hinton, as well as Uncle Jasper, considered it a whim of Charlotte's. He was surprised. Nay, he was more than surprised. He was really angry. Here was the woman, who in a week's time now must stand up before God and promise solemnly to obey him for all the remainder of her life, refusing to attend to his most natural desire.