that will soon be quite healed i hope said becoming a little in her satisfaction and speaking with an air of significance but did not appear to notice this and as some lady came up he on towards s end handling trifles and standing aloof until who had taken out his purse had finished his transactions my son came with me he overheard saying but he has vanished into some other part of the building and has left all these charitable to me i hope you ll reproach him for his shabby conduct she returned his smile and bow without speaking and he turned away only then observing and nodding to him conscious that was still there busied herself with counting money and avoided looking up she had been well pleased that he had devoted himself to to day and had not come near her they had begun the with an indifferent salutation and both had rejoiced in being aloof from each other like a patient who has actually done without his in spite of former failures in resolution and during the last few days they had even been making up their minds to failures looking to the outward events that must soon come to separate them as a reason for with self conquest in detail moved step by step as if he were being unwillingly dragged until he had got round the open end of the stall and was half hidden by a screen of went on counting her money till she suddenly heard a deep gentle voice saying aren t you very tired do let me bring you something � some fruit or � t i the unexpected tones shook her like a sudden accidental of a harp close by her oh no thank you she said faintly and only half looking up for an instant you look so pale insisted in a more tone i m sure you re exhausted i must you and bring something v the mill on the no indeed i take it are you angry with me what have i done do look at me pray go away said looking at him helplessly her eyes glancing from him to the opposite comer of the which was half hidden by the folds of the old faded green curtain had no sooner uttered this entreaty than she was wretched at the admission it implied but turned away at once and following her upward glance he saw philip seated in the half hidden comer so that he could command little more than that angle of the hall in which sat an entirely new thought occurred to and itself with what he had observed of s manner and with s reply to his observation it convinced him that there had been some former relation between philip and beyond that childish one of which he had heard more than one impulse made him immediately leave the hall and o up stairs to the refreshment room where walking up to philip he sat down behind him and put his hand on his shoulder are you for a portrait he said or for a sketch of that window by george it makes a capital bit from this dark comer with the curtain just marking it off i have been studying expression philip what miss s it s rather of the savage moody order to day i think � something of the fallen princess serving behind a counter her cousin sent me to her with a civil offer to get her some refreshment but i have been as usual there s a natural between us i suppose i have seldom the honor to please her what a you are i said i flushing angrily what because experience must have told me that i m universally pleasing i admit the law but there s some disturbing force here i am going said philip rising abruptly so am i � to get a breath of fresh air this place gets oppressive i think i have done suit and service long enough the two friends walked down stairs together without philip turned through the outer door into the but saying on by the by i must in here went on along the passage to one of the rooms at the other end of the building which were appropriated to the town library he had the room all to himself and a man requires nothing less than this when he wants to dash his cap on the table throw himself a chair and stare at a high brick the mill on thb wall with a frown which would not hare been beneath the occasion if he had been the giant the conduct that issues from a moral conflict has so close a resemblance to vice that the distinction escapes all outward judgments founded on a mere comparison of actions it is clear to you i hope that was not a � capable of deliberate for a selfish end and yet between the indulgence of a feeling and the concealment of it might have made a good case in support of philip s accusation meanwhile at her stall cold and trembling with that painful sensation in the eyes which comes from resolutely repressed tears was her life to be always like this � always bringing some new source of strife she heard the busy voices around her and wished her mind could flow into that easy current it was at this moment that dr who had quite lately come into the hall and was now walking down the middle with his hands behind him taking a general view fixed his eyes on for the first time and was struck with the expression of pain on her beautiful face she was quite still for the stream of customers had lessened at this late hour iq the afternoon the gentlemen had chiefly chosen the middle of the day and s stall was looking rather bare this with her 