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V ESTE f .^ii~ii~ ••â- *,• ^ \ •"N z' It's INFATUATION: A NOVEL,. CHAPTEK VI. SI'BIMiISa TUI NKT. If Mrs. Asplinu'a dianer had been â- aooeasfal iu its (jleaiura-ijivia); power so Wk8 (bat at the Uu^ver Huase, whioh was larger and mora iQciuaive. 1 1 took in all the former gaeats aad Bomo hklf dozen more, among whom where Mr. and Mrs. Glanricarde. KBtuUe would not t(o. Bbe had been asked, of courve, but m h'jr atilf- elaoted itate of quaai- widowhood she h»d preferred the BoliiaJe of hume, where she might think of her distant and ever-adored Charlie, and carry her runanciation as ao mnch sacrifice to the ni'^niory of tboir interrupted love. And aa Mra. Clauricsrde waa only cruel when the " sacra fames " was gnawing too tlKroely at her vitala, she let her daughter indulj^e her somewhat way- ward humor and forego the dinner, whioh perhaps, the mother reaaoned, a girl oonld not be czpeotud to enjjy. Had it been a dance, she might have insisted ; bat a dinner to a girl who prefers bread knd batter to anything else, and calls "a la Boubise " onion aauoeâ€" that waa of the nature ot pearls cast before swiue ; and Mrs. Clanricarde disapproved of waste. For herself, ehe wunt to the Uower House as a matter of doty ; ao she said. It was only right to cultivate neighborly feelings, and to help the Kiugthoudea when they took the trouble of entertaining such people as the Asphnes. She bad heardâ€" whobad not ?â€" of this new rioh man who had iaddenly descended as if from the •kies on the Aapliueaâ€" like Job in that ahower of gold which neither ancient nor modern Danaes can resist. As yet ahe bad Dot aeen him. Khe waa not on visiting terms with the Asplines-rshe wiahed njw that ahe had been Antkony had not shown at ohurch aa a tiool citi/.eo and sound Churchman should have done ; and the weather had been too bad for walking out. With the secret determination to fascin- ate this newcomer, whom yet she spoke of with not so mui:h ju licious reserve aa prepared hoHtility, Mrs. Clanricarde dressed herself with mure than ordinary oare â€" and ahe was never nuijligent of her appearance. The reiiuli justifiad the means. Bhs looked superb, and she knew it. She had that indeacribablai-Aic, that took of foreign distinction, which no daughter ot Albion can imitate. "How handsome yoo look tonight, Louise ! " said that unlucky Oeorge. seeking to propitiate his ttrt tempered goddess, aa well as sincerely atirred to unwonted admiration. He laid bis hand ou her white, plump arm with a caressing, half. timid touch. " It is a wonder that I have any looks at all after your conduct, " was her ould reply, drawing away. At dinner Mrs. Clanricarde was seated next to Anthony Harford ) and on her, as on every one, his wonderful manner of reserve and ' 'gniiy made the sharp impression of a uuw experience. That odd combination of the wild West "aoout" with the Kngliih gentleman gave him a Uavor aa cf cultivated wild fruit. And he, though Beaded next to Lady Kingshouse, waa not unwilling to divide hinmelf between the two. The vivacity of this striking. looking woman, with her dark bright eyoa and prematurely white hair dreased n ^i Pompadour, amused and interested him. He did not know, bat ha half believed, that he was in love with Lady Eli/.tbeth. For all that, ho was not euro, fur he felt for her difFurently from what ha had ever fell for any woman in his life before ; and he was not ijuitn able to analy/.e his own sensations. Nor did ho know her mind. Bbe waa sweet and friendly ami gracioua as a wingless angel might be. But how about the woman ? He fancied that her cheeks had taken a deeper oolor when he came npon her suddenly in the lane ; that her eyes looked both brighter and softer when they met faia ; that, when he entered the room thia eveoiog, that inner kind of smile whioh tells of secret pleasure had come over her faon like ho much sunlight. He fancied all thia ; he did not know. The reserve of a modest Knifliah girl iiiakea divination diflionU. Anthony waa no top, and he was afraid to think that these shadowy signs meant more than ao many aooidents with which he had reallv no vital connection. And how hesutifnl she looked to-night I Not with the huaaty which stirs a man's aenaes or in.iunta like strong wine to his brain, but with the beauty that oalma while it iuspins, that bringa the glory of heaven down tu the earth for sweet auBtenanco and illumination. Anthony thought her again and again the lovellst lady he had ever seen, and wondered with inoroaaing wistfninesa what she thought of him, and whether ahe liked him below the sarface, and not only jiiat upon it. Thua the dinner passed. When the gentlemen cams into the drawing-room, Anthony went ntraight to where Lady IJIi/itheth and M/a. CManrioarde were sitting tugothnr, diaonasing Hhaks- pcare and the mnninitl glasses with apparent interest and real lUtnensâ€" Lady Kli/.tbeth thinking of Anthony lUrford with pleasure, Mrs. Clanricarde with unrest. As he joined thoni, what waa dark to Anthony was clear as daylight tu Mrs. Clanricarde, and she read in a glance what be had not spelt corroiitly after long looking. " Hhe is in love with him," thought Estelle'a mother ; " and 1 will comiuer." Humething stirred her as if it had been a sword drawn from its scabbard. The paaaion of the light, love of intrigue, desire of cuni|neat, all leaping up in a sudden llame in her heart, Horn for the kind of warfare as she was, ho" aelilom had her talenia been ntili/.nd here in thin old HIeopy Hollow -this Noah a ark kind of society I But now had come the hour ami the man ; and Mrs. Clanricarde conaecrated herself to the straggle an fervently as ever a young •inire oonsetirated hiintelf to the laws of hia new knighthood. " Will you ( ouio and see me, Mr. Harford 7 " she said, in her blandest way. " 1 have a few old Japanese curios that art very rare. They are flue, are they not, dear ? " to Lady Kli/.ahetli. " Meautifnl I " aiiswerwl that guilelosa Aslanga. " Quite worth atxdng," sheadded. "Thitnk you. 1 will go with pleasure," salil Anthony. He had not the faintest notion who Mrs. Clanrinardo was, nor wl.ore she lived, but Delight would tell him, and perhaps Aooompaoy him. Bho was a very amusing and vivacious lady â€" that was all he knew and all he oared for at the present momeDt. "When will you come?â€" to-morrow ? " ahe aake i. " How long do yoa stay at Uindtleet ? Perhaps, in any case, you had better come tomorrow." " Yes, I wilt call on you to-morrow," he answered. " 1 am not staying many days longer. 1 have outstaid my timo as it is." " I am sure you will admire my curios," ahe repeated. " 1 am coming for you, not for your old relics," he said, bluntly. And Mra. Clanricarde'a heart gave a throb like a girl's. If this stranger were so easily charmed with her, what would lie be with Estelle ? And what a spleodid-lookiug creature he waa t really a conqueior among heroes I How tar had begone with Lady Elizabeth? Not very tar, ahe thoaght. She was aa astute aa any human being could be, not to have more than the normal eenaee, and she did not see any indioationa of an expresa understanding between them. " Ob I" said Mra. Aspline, with the briskness of a aour ferment, when he told her of hia engagement ; " that's in the wind, isit?" " What'a ia what wind?" he asked. " Well, you have fallen into the hands of the Philistines, that's all," she answered. " This Mrs. Clanrioarde is the best manuuavring woman in Kiniishouse. She ia like a apider with llies. You are done for, Anthony, if yoa do not see through her." He laaghcd. " I am not afraid other," belaid, lightly. " It would be better if you were," said Mra. Aspline, sharply. "I'ride goes before a fall, Anthony, and yon are not tli^ lirat man who has fallen into a trap." " Don't see the trap," ho returned. "And I do," said Cookey, with a certain vicioasnoes by no means uaual to her. " And then ahe ia ao proud," said Anue, languidly; "and what of, I should like to know ? They are rained, and every one expects to hear of their being sol i upâ€" any day. Wtiy should they be proud ?" " Then you too don't like them?" aikod Anthony. "I? Like them 7" she answered, quite (juietly. " I seldom ilialike any oneâ€" do 1. mother? But if there is one person in the world that 1 hate, it ia Mrs. Clanricarde I wish she was dead !" Anthony looked at her in amazement. "What queer cusses women are I" ho thought to himself. What waa the meaning of all this 7 What corn of poor, fat, good-natured Coukey's had thia qnaai-Boatouian trodden on ? Where had sleepy, stupid, uapractical little Anne been pinched? What tempest in a teapot had shaken these atoma into antago- nism, and what was the colution of the mystery ? All that, however, waa their affair. He had nothing to do with it. Aa a gentleman he muul keep bia promise to this vivasioua FreDch-marcjuise-like woman. OUAPTElt VII. Ills KATE. The ne-\t day Anthony prepared to go to Ije< Baulea, aa agreed on. Mra. Aspline had evidently forgotten the engagement, for ahe propjaed that her guest shoald drive with her and Anne to see the Fairy Honk, which waa one of the " pointa " of the place, and which would be ao lovely to-day ! 'There had been a two days sharp froat. and the icicles would benowbeautifulâ€" reallysoms- thing worth seeing. " Vou will come, ot course?" she aaid, with a flushed face and rather qaiok voice. " Whore la your Hawk?" asked Antbooy. " In what direction? "Through Kingshouse, and on the Lan- caster Boad." "Anywhere near Lea Banles?" "LesSaulial' Mrs. Atpline spoke in a tone of sarpris). " Uh dear no! What liave wo to do with L"S Htules?" "Well, I have, if you have not," he re- turned. " I am going to see Mrs. Clanri- oarde today." "Oh I" said JV'rs. Aspline, crisping her lips. â- ' Bo yoa p isist, do you?" "Persist in keeping an appointment?" ho laughed. " Why, uf course, I do" " Then you'll repint it," said Mrs. At- pline, turning coldly away, as one turns from a son of perditiou liually abandoned to hia evil ways. It waa all very iaexplioable to Anthony, and he exhausted ooojeoture in vain, lie Anally cams to the oonclosion that the vivacious half. foreign looking woman waa a runaway wife, whoso tittle slip aociety had agreed to condone in a half hearted wayâ€" atrict aistora, like that virtuous and astute Cookoy, holding aloof no matter who drew near. Ho was sorry to odend his hostess, but an engagement is an engagement ; and Anthony was not the man to allow bis actions to be inlluonccd by any ono, man or woman, and woman no more than man. Meanwhile he would go round by the Duwer House, and see that dear Delight, whoie presence always brought iiim the sense of spiritual harmony and mental rest. But Lady I'liitabeth could not help him. All she could give him was the rather bsld hit ot information, "They do not like each other.' " But why ? " asked Anthony, who knew the facit and wanted tbe reason. " I do not know, exoept that Mrs. (Uanri- cards did not c^ll on tho Asplinps when they came," she answered. " But why 7 " ho asked again. "Mrs. Clanricarde is very proud, and has great ideas ot birth and all that," said Lady Eli/.abeth, relu'itautly. Bbe did not like to allude to Mrs. Asplino'a industrial origin to her friend and gneat. " lldoaiisi) she was once a cook 7 " asid Anthony, bluntly, cutting the Uordian 'knot with one blow. " Yea, I suppose so," was the answer. The Ametiuanl/od Knglisliman laughed. "(loud Heavens I " he said, with that kind of mirth whioh has in it more gall than honey. " Aa it It signilUs a red cent whether she were a cook or not, if she knows how to btiliavo herself, and bore a good character heforo and after I I should have thought that lady- Mrs. ('lanrioardo â€" had hiore nonse than to stumble into this hole. Also," ho added, looking at Laity Klizalieth, with eyes aa soft aa satin, " I should have thonght that what Lsdy Eti/.abeth Inohbold patroni/.ed might pass muster with all tho world besides in Kings- home." Lady Eli/.abath smiled with -the pretty faint embarrassmont she ao ofton showed when with Anihony Harford. Fliuterv, whioh from any one else was eB|>eoially dis. pleasing to her, from liini was delightful. " But thoru is nothing against uithor the one or the othef ? " he asked again. " My old friend Mrs. Aspline, I know, always conducted herself like a lamb. Has Mrs. Clanricarde as clean a record ?" " Quite," waa the answer. " It is only a peraonal fueling. Perbapa, as mothers, they are as mutually jealous of their daaghters." " i;aaghters 7 Has Mrs. Clanrioarde a danghter?" " Yes ; Estelle ; a very pretty girl, and a very dear one." Lady Eliztboth spoke warmly. She dearly loved Estelleâ€" and she pitied her as mnch as she love 1â€" which gave a certain flavor of tenderness exquisitely charming. " Why did she not come here yesterday 7 ' waa Anthony's next query. " She is not very well," answered Lady Elizabeth. She did not say, " Bbe is broken- hearted because her lover has gone away." "Oh! now I eee it all," Ofiod Anthony, with sudden illumination. "Why, of conrse. How dense of me not to have seen it before I Jealousy. There it ia. Well you women do boat creation tor that I " he added. " You are jealous among your- selves, and that's a fact 1 We men are nowhere compared to you." " I think yoa do pretty well, however, in that line," waa Lady Elizabsth'a laughing reply ; but Anthony, with empbaaia, repeated hia assertion, and declared that women were the moat joalous hi inga on earth, and beat all creation hollow, let what else would make the running. 1 ben he aroae to leave, and holding Lady Elizabeth's band just a moment longer than ncoessary, be said, looking at her again with hii satiny eyes, " Bat you are above that trash, 1 am sure I I ahould as soon expect lightning from a rainbow aa jealousy from Lady Flizabeth ! " " I hops I should never be so poor- hearted or mean spirited," was her answer, made gravoly aud with earncataess. 'â-  The loveliest lady in England " was Anthony's aoapoken thoaght, repeated two or three times, aa he went on his way to Les Saules â€" "just tbe loveliest 1 She has a heart as pare aa crystal and a mind aa bright a^ silver. I wonder if she could ever be brought to love me ? Sbo is worth try ing for. With aacb a wife aa that all my unrest would bo overâ€" all my fever would be quieted Ho turned into the gate of Les Baulea, and soon found himself in the room where Mra. Clanrioarde waa alone. Bbe received him graoioualy, with juat that amount of cordiality which keepa on tho right aide of gush, and is aa tar from niijgardliueea as from excess. She said she waa glad to sec him, and she did not ask after hi] hostesses. She spoke of the pleaaant dinner they had bad yesterday evening, and called Lady Kiizabcth a dear soul. Bat ahe greatly lamented her want ot practicality. "In what way is sheuipractical?" asked Anthony, feeling aa it his lance were iu rest and the bu^le bad sounded. "She is too good," returned Mrs. Clan- ricarde, with a soft smile. " As if any one can bo too good I 1 anppoae I oaght to aay that we are all too bad tor her." She aaid this with the niceat little air ot apology and aelf. accusation. She waa really a wonder- fully charming woman I " To be too good ia not a very general fault," aaid Anthony, anawering her amila. " For me, I think Lady Elizabeth juat p3r- teot." "She i3 indeed delightfal," retarnsd Mra. Clanricarde. " II is a pity she belongs to such a family." | " What ot them ?" he asked, gravely, " Do you not know fâ€" there is madneaa among them," she anawered. " Some of them are now, I believe, in a lunatic aayluffl. It ia that whioh makes me rci4ret the dear love's decided eooen. ttioity aa I do. If her family history waa not darkened bythia terrible aoourge,she might be as odd aha as liked, and one wouUI only love hor all tbe more, and say it waa hor way, and, being hers, beautiful 1 But now come and look al my onrioa, Mr. Harford. I htve really a very notable .• ll.'ction." .->:ie hail, however, taken the heart out of hi 11 foi I, .11 mur.iont, and he could think of lui'hing but the terriblo shadow on the pain of hitt awect friend. And for a while Mrs. Clanricarde thought aha had made a mistake and done more harm than good by her talae information. Bbe recovered her lost ground with iullnito pains, and only after a time. Her vivacity waa infeotioua, and Anthony could not resist the contagiou. He ban ilod her qacor little squat figures and dialocated monstora with wry necka and ahavon heads, pronounced them interesting and thought them hideous. Then, aa .\nthony, having exhaaated the outaide world as represented here in tlie drawing room at Lea Baulea, waa be»;iniiiiig to take Ii>avo, ahe stopped him by eaying, aa a kind of after. thoughtâ€" a kind of minor aud even minua attractionâ€" " Oil, by. tho- way, I inuat introduce you to in> daughter bifore you go. She is upstairs, painting. Bho ia so fond ot art Iâ€" and is really not a very deKploabIa artist', at least, naturally, I think so." " Oil yea I jour daughter. I should like to Heo Miss Clanrioarde," aaid .\nthony, who had forgotten her oxiateuco. Mrs. Clanricarde rang the bell aud aaked the servant to bog Miss Clanrioarde tooome down. In a few minutes tbe door-handle turned and the door opened. Framed as in a pic- tureâ€" chocked by tho munientary surprise ot ihiding a stranger where she expected to BOO only her mother -Anthony saw a tall dark haired girl, with soft brown eyes aud a pale Itowcr-like face, dressed in a quaintly fai-hionod gown of clinging material and indeterminate oolor â€"neither blue nor green, but butwoun both ; a girl whose bo «uty waa groat, but whole oharm was gretter â€" thai subtle, naiiieleis oharm whioh belongs to tho fated aud fateful women of men's passion aii.i destruction ; the charm whioh Helen aud Cleopatra and Mary Btnart had to their sorrow, and tho sorrow ot those who loved them. Her eyes wore wurlda in which the soul waa loal. Her HoiiUi wa.i a net wherein the aen^oa were entangled. Hor dark and curling hair waa like the perfumed tendrils of a dusky vine. Her lithe and graceful llgure had in it the aeiiae of melody and rhythmio harmoniea in every lino and every gcsturo. Bbe atood there aa ahe might have been the blessed daniozol againoi the golden bar of heaven ; and Anthony caught his breath aa at a vision seen in the twilight. lie felt as if the whole nieanin,^ of his lite had suddenly been made clear, ns if tie tiad looked into a luaglo crystal and aeen tlie hidden secrets of fate aud the fature. In tbe brief moment while Eatelle stood there and be looked at her, beseemed to Live years, and to go through tbe experien^ of a lifetime. Bomethic;g woke op in him that had been dormant for all hia life, and be came suddenly to tho possession as ot another sense, to the full inheritanoe of his iioul. Then the spell shifted, it did not break, as Estelle, letting the door tall from, her hand, came slowly into the room and waa foraally introduced. And Anthony, who had adopted tbe American habit ot ahakiug hands on an introduction, waa afllioted with a sudden, and to himaetf an incomprehenaible ehyneas, and felt as if he dared not touch that long white graceful hand.nomore than an ordinary knight dared have touched the Ban Graal had be- seen it. After thia ho loal count of time. He coold never remember how long be stayed, nor how he tore himaelt away. He only knew that he found himaelt at laat at Uindfleet, ia hia heart, aa it were, a bird singing, a fountain playing, a garden blooming, and the dull winter evening changed to an infinite glory of great glod- neas which yet waa akia to tears. CHAP FEB VIIL AT TUB KtSOSUOCSB AJIMS- The position was andoabtcdly awkward. Anthony Harford was the gneat ot Mrs. Aspline, who bated the Clanricardes, and irresistibly attracted by the Clanricardes, who did not visit tbe Aaplines. What waa to be done ? Anthony woald not leave Kingsbouae just yet, and he coald not atay at Uindtleet it he intended to improve his acquaintance with the Clanricardea, aa he certainly would. For what elae should he remain here at all 7 Even Lady Elizabeth, sweet as she was and delightful as he bad found her â€" just on the brink, too, aa be had been ; just on the brink, looking for her face in the magic fountain â€" even Bbe could not have kept bim ; nor could her people, nor could his present hostess. But that tall dark- haired girl, with her fate-i oharmâ€" ah ! that waa another matter. To aee her again and oftenâ€" to get to know her and to prove her â€" to win her to himaelt, and wear her on bis heart tor all hia life, as his flower of love and jewel of hia treasuryâ€" yea, for Eatelle he muat stay and could cot go. Aud yet he could not stay at Hindfleet. Wherefore, making so far a clean breast of it, he told Mra. Aspliuc what waa on his mind aa relating to her and " tboae people at LiasoU," aa she called them ; and how impossible he felt it to acoept her hospitality while using bia time in visiting a honse which waa ahnt against her, and which now ahe would not visit were it opened to her. "I am sorry for you, Anthony,' said Mrs. Aspline, flushing a violent crimsou passing into purple. " Tea are tho t^rat man tjiat maiiisuvring old cat baa caught and you will not be tbe laat. I thought you bad mora sense. You are old enoagh, I am sure ! " " Old enough to know my own mind 7 " aaid Anthony, gravely. " 1 hope ao." " When you aay tbe Clanricardea, yoa mean Mias," continued Mra. .\9pline. " I do not auppose you care much for that fool of a man who is next thing to a natural, or fur Mrs. Clanricarde either, with bar pride and her finery. Al her age dressing as she docs to look like a picture I I have no patience with such vanity 1 It ia not decent ; and so I tell you." Anthony waa ailent. It did not come into the programme ot his duty, aa he con- ceived it, 10 defend Mra. Cianrioarde's millinery ; but he thought again, as so oflcD before, " What queer oaaaes women are when they uome to loggerheads among themselves I " " Takeouradvioe," aaid Anne,pattingoaa little maternal air that was both becoming and entertaining ; "go homo to Thrift, and keep out of danger. You will repent it if yoa stay here. We know all about these people better than you do." " 1 do not auppose there is much barm to know ot thom,'^|aid Anthony, even graver than beforo. -^nell, I don't know what you call barm," said Mrs. Aapline. "It right and left, and Tom, Dick, aud Harry's no harm, then there is none, I auppose. But I know I would have been sorry enough if any daughter of mine had been hawked aliout all over the plaoe, aa Mra. Clanricarde has hawked hers ! " Anthony's bronzed face became strangely livid, aa well as atern. It acemed to auddunty set like so iiiuoh metal, and to becoma rigid like death. "I reckon there's not much chance ot hawking any girl al>out ia such a God-tor- saken old place aa thia," he aaid, with forced quietness. " Thon isn't there juat I " returned Mrs. Aspline. " First that Mr, Charlie Osborne, who baa a cough like a cbnrch yard, and not a penny-piece to bless himself with ; and then that moon rilt up at Redhill yonder, that Caleb Btagg, that I declare 1 would not touch with the end o( a mop- stick. That woman there flung her danghter at ttiese two, aud would have given her oara tor (ithor. The way she went after that young Slagg waa what 1 call a disgrace. And all tho world knows it aa well as I." Anthony drew hia tips oloae together, as poople do when they are deeply moved, aud yet wish to keep their aelf command. Could he have ever likod this woman â€" this vulgar traduoer ot that cxquiaite vieion ? Mrs. Aspline took a new face and form and meaning for him. She waa no longer the kind old Cookey of hia boyiah dava, still lesa the improved, hospitable, almost lady- like woman ot thia latter time. Bho waa a vulgar acold, and his hsart sickened agaiuat hor. Bhe aaw that she had made a mistake. " Well, there I I am wrong to put myself about like thia," aha said, with a forocd laugh. " You are old enough to know your own mind, as you aay, Anthony, and yoa have seen enough of the world by now to Hud your own way about. And I dare aay I am prejudioed against this Mrs. (Clanri- oarde and all her kith and kin." " It is as well to know all sides." said Anthony, speaking with ditTuuliy. " They stoned the saints once on a time, and they keep up th« practice yet." ftlrs. Aspline flushed again, aa before ; Anne bit her lipa ; but both kept ailert, and chewed the bitter cud with deooroui reaignation. It ssemed little leaa than blasphemy to compare the Clanricardea - Estelle or her motherâ€" to saints ; bat Anthony Harford was â€" well, he was a Harford, and the Harford month was hard. " I reekon," he said after a ninment's pause, " I shall be doing tho square thing it I dear oat ot thia and make uew traoka. As I am going to aee for myself what these ladies are like,aod calcalate to be pretty near holt my lime at Lea Sanies, it wUl be lietter for as all if I lake rocma at the hotel, where I shall offend no one, and be In no one's way."' " That, of course, ia aa you like yoar- aelf," aaid Ura. Aapline, with the dignitj of diapleaaare. " Yon are not in uar way here, Anthony, and I hope we have not shown that you were- I hope we have made yoa comfortable, and let you aee that yoa were welcome. We have done our best." Here tbe pxir dear woman's voioe a little broke, and her eyes grew red. The rain threatened after the thunder bad growled. " You have been just aa kind as ever yoa ooald be," said Anthony. " There's noth- ing to be aaid on thai, and I'm ever so much grateful to you. But I reckon it wilt lie the squareat to clear out now, and most likely to keep us good friends." "Very likely," sail Mrs. Aapline, curiously lachrymoee and iudignsnt at one and the same time. " Perhaps yoa are right," said Anne. Vexed to see ber mother so moved, sba took a tone as hard and cold aa an iron rod, aa acid aa so mnch lemon joioe. For all ber vagoe dreams, she had not dreamed heraelf m love with Anihony Martord. " Then that ia all flxed and a'.raighteosd out," aaid Anthony, with a sense ot relief. "Certainly," said Mrs. Aspline; and " CertaiLly," echoed Anne. Which ended the matter and clamped the proposition into its final affirmative. Bo that niiiht aaw Anthony Harford instalte.1 at Kingshoaae Arms, where b* inti'nded to remain for at leant some weeks. He could not go back to Thrift ! How cold and gloomy and desolate that tine old place looked in hia memory I Everyone was glad to hear that Anthonj Harford had moved into the town. A curious little warmth spread ovsv Lidy Klizabetn'a heart wbe.'i she heard the newa ; and her fair face took the color of her feelinga. Aa for Anthony, had he b:en thare be would Lo longer have noticed whether tha fair cheeks tlutbed er paled, whether the soft eyes brightened or were abashed. These signs were signs to bim no more. •â-  What can Harford be staying for at such a place aa Kingsbouae?" said my lord when hi heard ttic news, like a man unable to see through a millstone. " For Bodety. I dare say his own place ia doll," aaid my lady, like a woman having a reason always ready. " I ahould not think the Kingshooia Arma a very lively lookout." he returned. " But he baa as, and that compenaates." " And ho eeema ao much interested in astronomy," aaid Lady Eli^ibath, with unoouaciitaa diplomacy. " So he doea," aaid her father -, " and now that we have tbe frost again we will ask bim to dianer, aud we can make a night of it np aloft." " You will freeze yourbelf to death some night ap aloft," aaid the counteas, juat a point of queraloumess â€" of quasi grumbling â€"mingled with what t\ie waa care and consideration. " Oh, we have wraps and motflers, as yoa know," was her huaband a reply. Both he and Lady Elizabelh were in riding costume. " We will ride round by the town, and leave a measage at lbs Arms," con- tinued the earl. " I do not auppose he is engaged anywhere else." " 1 ahould think not," aaid Lady Elizi- belb, who waa anxious he should be asked. •Why, to whom ahonld he tie engaijed?" asked her mother iu surprise. " Society is not ao nnmeroua here as to aak him every day to dinner." " Ha might bs at the Aapliaet," said ber danghter. " Or tbe Clsnrioardes," aaid tha earl. " He seemed monalroaaly taken with Mrs. Clanricarde the other night; and upon my soul aha looked aucommonly baudsomet I never saw her look better.' Sho might have beeu one of her own ancestors at tbe coart of the Grand Monarquo." I To ba Continued). IS IT GKNDINBr Probably tbouiandd of people in this section of country, and this section is no exceptiou to any other in this respeol in Canada, have read the report said to have baen written by Prof. 8. A. Latlimore, Ph. D., LL. D., Analyist ot Foods and Medicines. New Y'ork State Board of Health, and Prolesaor ot Chem- istry in tho Booheater. N. Y , University, stating that all ot Ine Safe Remedies man- ufactured by H. U. Warner A Co. were pure and wholesome, nor did any of them contain any inoroury or deleteriona aob- atance. I o aborten ihe controversy, how- ever, we will give Prof. Lattimore's report a-iiire: UiitVEBSITV or RoCHRSTKR, ) CuKUIi'-Al, LlllolUTORT. j Mr. n. H. Warner h>a placed in my posaesaion the tormulH< of Ihe several meduinea manufactured and aold under tbe general designation of â- â-  Warner's Bate Beinediea." I have investigated the prooeases of manufacture whioh are con- ducted with extreme care and according to the beat methoda. I have ttken from the Laboratory samples ot all the articles used in the preparation of these medicines, aa well aa the aeveral meiticinea in whioh they enter. I have also parohaaed from different drn^igiata in Ibiicity " Warner's Safe Kenio.lios," and npon critical examina- tion //i>i<J them all entirrSij jrft from mercury and from poiionout and lUhtfrious iubttanctt. 8. A. LiTTiM.iiiK, Ph.D., LL. D., Analyat ot Fooda and Medicines, New York Blale Board of Heilth, Professor of Chemistry, University of Kooheater, N. Y. We cBrnot think that a Arm ot the standing of H. H. Warner A Co. would daro publiah auoh n statement if it were untrue, and w« now have that Arm's authority to say to onr readera that it is absolutely and uuqnalifledly trus ia every particolar. ♦ f # 4 MABo.insT Ladt SAKi^ncnsT, who has been elected a member ot the London County Connoil for Hrixtou, is a very remarkable County ''ouncillor, with exceptional gitla, both Bocial aud magnetiii, aaya the Pali Hall GaietU. Bome ut the feata of healing whioh tilie tiaa beeu aide to |>erform at her little tiospital lu norihern Loudon are almost incredible, were they not well authentioated.