t show to visitors she was not staying at the f said no but i was taken to to see the old house and as a consequence i saw the s family i suppose you have been there and know all about them f yes i have been there said quietly a fine old place an excellent setting for a widow with romantic fortunes and she seems to have had several i think i have found out that there was between her and my friend long before her marriage said really da interested for they had only been a year at how came you to know any thing of it f oh � not ignorant of what it is to be a miserable devil i to on tbe signs of misery in others i found out that never goes to and has never seen the since she came back and miss let fall something in our talk about for i went through some of my nonsense to please the young ones � something which proved to me that was once hovering about his fair cousin close enough to get i don t know what was her part in the perhaps the duke came in and carried her o� that is always the way when an worthy young man forms an attachment i understand now why talks of making the law his mistress and remaining a bachelor but these are green since the duke did not get himself drowned for your sake it may turn out to be for my friend sex s sake who knows f is it absolutely necessary that mrs should marry again v said ready to add that s success in her fortunes hitherto had not been enough to warrant a now attempt you monster retorted do you want her to wear weeds for you all her life � bum herself in perpetual you are alive and merry could say nothing but ho looked so much annoyed that turned the current of his chat and when he was alone shrugged his shoulders a little over tho thought that there really had been some stronger feeling between and the than would like to know of why didn t she fall in love with me f thought laughing at himself would have had no rivals no woman ever wanted to discuss with mc no wonder that under that sort of joking with a whip lash it touched that were quivering with the anticipation of witnessing some of that pain to which even s light words seemed to give more reality � any sort of recognition by another giving emphasis to the of our anxiety and now he had come down with tho firm resolve that he would not again the trial the next � mn � all m rode to bo liad tent bo od to and to if bim found her him in tho old when chief of her life had happened les ad than he had her her a but then vm no smile on her bat a in with the mood in which he had hut her she wm d tho to the in no sooner he aft a little distance of to bar said yon were afraid of coming to i was so m of grief and despair tho last time i am not ao to i hare been sorry since i have been it a why i keep np my hope and be as aa i � aa b� i would not yon any about there was an unwonted sweetness in a tone and look as uttered these words that seemed to to in utmost cruelty into tho task now laid upon him bat ho felt obliged to make his answer a beginning of the i am in some trouble to day he said looking at her rather mournfully but it is because i have things to tell jou which you will almost think it a want of confidence on part not to have spoken of before they arc things affecting mj own life � my own future i shall seem to have made an ill return to yon for the trust you have placed in mo � to have given you an idea of events that make great changes for me but when wo have been together wo have hardly had time to enter into subjects which at tho moment were really less pressing to me than the trials you have been going through was a sort of timid tenderness in s deep tones and he paused with a pleading look as if it had been only who had conferred any thing in her scenes of and confession a thrill of surprise was visible in her such meaning as she found in his words had shaken her but without causing fear her mind had at once to some change in his position with regard to sir and sir s property she said with a sense of comfort from s way of asking her par don � you of any thing bat what a could do to mo and i was so troublesome could you tell mo things r it will perhaps astonish you said that i have only quite lately known who were my parents was not astonished she felt the more assured that her expectations of what was coming were right went on without check the reason why you found me in italy was that i had gone there to learn that � in fact to meet my mother it was by her wish that i was brought up in ignorance of my she parted with me after my father s death when i was a little creature but she is now very ill and she felt that the secrecy ought not to be any longer maintained her chief reason had been that she did not wish me to know i was a jew a t ev exclaimed in a low tone 