from friend she said nothing but he who knew her was aware that she meant by her silence to reproach him with drawing cruel mrs has asked you to come when did you say she thought tuesday but would send the day before to let me know if it suited her and with this subject upon their lips they entered to breakfast tuesday came but no message from mrs nor was there any on wednesday in brief a fortnight slipped by without a sign and it looked suspiciously as if mrs were not going further in the direction of taking up grace at present her father reasoned immediately after his daughter s two with mrs � the interview in the wood and a visit to the house � she had attended s party no doubt the out and out of that gathering had made it a topic in the neighborhood and that every one present as guests had been widely spoken of � grace with her exceptional qualities above all what then bo natural as that mrs should have heard the the village news and become disappointed in ber expectations of grace at finding kept company full of post argument mr overlooked tbe infinite of possible reasons and for a woman ber mind for instance knowing tbat bis grace was attractive be quite forgot tbat mrs bad also great pretensions to beauty in bis simple estimate an attractive woman attracted all around so it was settled in bis mind tbat ber sudden mingling witb tbe villagers at tbe unlucky s was tbe cause of ber most grievous loss as be deemed it in tbe direction of house tis a i be would repeat to i am ber for conscience sake it was one morning later on were bis mind tbat curiously darkened tbe window just as tbey breakfast looking up tbey saw in person mounted on and straining bis neck forward as be bad been doing for some time to attention tbe window grace bad been tbe first to see bim and involuntarily exclaimed be is � and a new on faces as tbey regarded were written suspended and compound feelings concerning bim could be read old panes but be saw bis features just now were for a wonder lit up witb a red smile at some idea so tbey rose from breakfast and went to tbe door grace witb an anxious wistful manner ber in a reverie mrs placid and inquiring we come out to look at your said it could be seen tbat be was pleased at attention and explained tbat be bad ridden a mile or two to try tbe animal s paces i ber be added witb so severely repressed as to seem indifference because been used to carry a lady still mr did not mrs said and is quiet f assured ber tbat was no doubt of it i took care of tbat s five and twenty and very clever for ber age the well get and come in said and accordingly this event was the of s thoughts during the past week or two the want of success with his evening party he had accepted in as philosophic a mood as he was capable of but there had been enthusiasm enough left in him one day at market to purchase this old mare which had belonged to a neighboring parson with several daughters and was offered him to carry either a gentleman or a lady and to do odd of and at a pinch this obliging seemed to furnish with a means of himself in s good opinion as a man of by throwing out future possibilities to grace the latter looked at him with interest this morning in the mood which is altogether peculiar to woman s nature and which when reduced into plain words seems as impossible as the of matter � that of entertaining a tender pity for the object of her own unnecessary coldness the which marked in general was now by a freshness and animation that set a brightness in his eye and on his cheek mrs asked him to have some breakfast and he replied that he would join them with his usual lack of observation not perceiving that they had all finished the meal that the hour was late and that the note by the kettle it to be nearly empty so that fresh water had to be brought in trouble taken to make it boil and a general of the table carried out neither did he know so full was he of his tender object in buying that horse how many cups of tea he was down one after another nor how the morning was slipping nor how he was keeping the family from about their duties then he told throughout the humorous story of the horse s purchase looking particularly grim at some fixed object in the room a way he always looked when he anything that amused him while he was still thinking of the scene he had described grace rose and said i have to go and help my mother now mr wm i he ejaculated turning his eyes suddenly upon her s thb she repeated her words with a slight of awkwardness whereupon becoming conscious too conscious jumped up saying to oe sure to be sure p wished them quickly good morning and bolted out of the house nevertheless he had upon the whole strengthened his position with her at least time too was on his side for as her father saw with some regret already the of life was fast becoming from her observation as a just as the first strangeness of a face from which we have for years been separated passes off with renewed intercourse and tones itself down into simple identity with the of the past thus mr went out of the house still to the sacrifice of the he had been at such pains in mounting he 