were enveloped in the dense dust of the descending mass though not a stone touched them where is says the excited lady she has her � she won t let her go for a time � has her but she s mine � she s mine cries lady then her quick and tender eyes perceived that her husband had almost forgotten her existence in contemplating the of s the s and his own he was in a dream of exaltation which recognized nothing lady necessary to his well being outside that circle of three lives was at length brought home she was much fascinated by the and saw nothing tragic but rather all that was truly delightful in what had happened in the evening when the excitement was over and was put to bed sir said she has saved and i have been asking myself what i can do for her as a slight acknowledgment of her heroism surely we ought to let her have to bring up since she still desires to do it it would be so much to s advantage we ought to look at it in that light and not seized his hand you don t mean it � that i must lose my pretty darling � the only one i have she met his gaze with her piteous mouth and wet eyes so painfully strained that he turned away his face the next morning before was awake lady stole to the girl s bedside and sat regarding her when opened her eyes she fixed them for a long time upon s features mamma you are not so pretty as the are you she said at length i am not why are you not mamma where would you rather live always � with me or with her the little girl looked troubled i am sorry a b up of noble mamma i don t mean to be unkind but i would rather live with her � i mean if i might without trouble and you did not mind and it could be just the same to us all you know has she ever asked you the same question never mamma there lay the sting of it the seemed the soul of honor and in this matter test her as she might that afternoon lady went to her husband with singular firmness upon her gentle face we have been married nearly five years and i have never you with what i know perfectly well � the of never have you dear though i have seen that you knew from the first from the first as to her father not as to her mother her i did not know for some time but i know now ah you have discovered that too says he without much surprise could i help it very well that being so i have thought it over and i have spoken to i agree to her going i can do no less than grant to the her wish after her kindness to my � your � her � child then this self sacrificing woman went hastily away that he might not see that her heart was bursting and thereupon before they left the city changed her mother and her home lady after this the went away to london for a while taking with her and the and his wife returned to their lonely place at park without her to in the bustle of bath was a different thing from living without her in this quiet home one evening sir missed his wife from the supper table her manner had been so pensive and of late that he immediately became alarmed he said nothing but looked about outside the house narrowly and discerned her form in the park where recently she had been accustomed to walk alone in its lower there was a pool fed by a brook and he reached this spot in time to hear a splash running forward he dimly perceived her light gown floating in the water to pull her out was the work of a few and bearing her in doors to her room he her nobody in the house knowing of the incident but himself she had not been long enough to lose her senses and soon recovered she owned that she had done it because the had taken away her child as she persisted in calling her husband spoke sternly to her and impressed upon her the weakness of giving way thus when all that had happened was for the best she took his reproof meekly and admitted her fault � after that she became more resigned but he often caught her in tears over some doll shoe or ribbon of s and decided to take her to a group of noble the north of england for change of air and scene this was not without its effect no less than mentally as later events showed but she still evinced a of ear at the most casual mention of the child when they reached home the and were still absent from the neighboring hall but in a month or two they returned and a little later sir came into his wife s room full of news well would you think it after being so desperate too about getting to be with her what our neighbor the is going to be married again it is to somebody she has met in london lady was much surprised she had never dreamed of such an event the conflict for the possession of s person had obscured the possibility of it yet what more likely the being still under thirty and so what is of still more interest to us or to you continued her husband is a kind offer she has made she is willing that you should have back again seeing what a grief the loss of her has been to you she will try to do without her it 