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Lord ;Ravenhold rises hurriedly and goes
forward to speak with Mr,. Brandon. lite
face has a slightly flushed, perturlted ex-
preasion-he does not know how much the
clew -Domer may have beard -it makes his
naturally s
o mannere a trifle abrupt.
.
Brandon, however, . knows and guesses
nothing except that he lies Dome awkwardly
inion a. tete•a tete, always a disagreeable and
eltupid thing to do, and only to be ]repaired
by seeming unooneoioua of one's misadveve
tore. So ho says quietly and naturally
enough :
" We are just going, Lord Ravenhold. I
want to tell you that I fear we shall not be
able to dine at Hurlingham with you on
Sunday. Thank you very much all the
eeme for asking us."
, " Oh, very well," replies Lord avenhold,
rather shortly, more 'because he is ember -
rayed therefrom any feeling of offence.
ae Brandon imagines that his lordship.is
huff' about their declining _n hie invitation
afterhaving accepted it.
You understand, I hope . says Bran-
don, seeing that the young man's men-
ner ie not pertioulariygenial.
".Quite. Certainly," answers, Ravenhold.
as
Some other tine, t hope. Good -night,
d he roma on his heel and rejoins
Mildred.
I Lady
She, having been slightly frightened by
Mr. Brandon's sudden appearance, and hay
-
Dag had a nunute in which to get the better
of her rage, has calmed down. As. Raven -
hold stands in front of her, her passion for
liineand hie good looks, which are not im-
ppared by the cloud on his brow, go atilt
farther toward?appeasing her.
" What did he want ? " she asks.
" Not my blood-thie time,'' returns the
Ening man, coolly. He is nob yet aware of
ady infatuation for his wife."
Lsdy Mildred likes him in this mood.
Rising, she lays one hand on hie and says,
rather humbly :
"Zen us be friends, Gerard, shall we?"
" As you pleaee," he answers, coldly. It
is his turn now.
" Don't be angry 1" she pleads. " It is
only because I am so fond of you."
" Yon have an infernally unpleasant wa
et showing your fondness then, I must tatty,"
he retorts.
" Say you. Dare for me," she whispers,
fixing her dark eyes entertainingly on his
taoe.
" I hate scenes," he utters, turning away
from her.
"Then, perhape," she remarks, the sparks
of her anger, always quick to unite, blitz -
fug up again, " you will take me to ney
carriage 2"
"Certainly," he answers, stiffly, giving
her his arm.
" Uncle Charlie," he says, meeting the
colonel in Pall Mall the same morning, " I
want you to take me to pall on Mre. Bran-
don."
Colonel Dallas does not answer for a
moment. Then he says, looking his nephew
stifaight in the face :
"'There are plenty of other women in the
world, my dear boy."
Lord Ravenhold colors slightly and is
farioue with himself for doiog so.
"Upon mysoul !" he exolaims, petulantly,
" Tthink it's rather hard that I cannot ex-
press a wish to speak to a lady without—"
He does nob'finiah his sentence.
" You know the family failing," returns
the colonel, good-humoredly. " You don't
mean any harm. Mais c'est plus fort gas
nous. Leave Adam and Eve in paradise ;
leave the poor man his owe lamb."
Half an hour later he walks into his
alater's boudoir.
" Gerard ! what have you been doing 2"
she cries at sight of hint. " Did I not beg
and implore you to leave Mrs. Brandon
alone, and not to make Milly her enemy 2"
" You are pleased to speak in parables,"
sayeRavenhoid, stiffly, knowing all too well
what she means.
" She has just been here in the most
furious rage. We have all but quarreled.
She said the moat shameful and abom.nable
things about Mre. Brandon, and she will
abuse her to every one she meets."
" Let her !" observes Lord Ravenhold,
dryly. " I hardly fancy anything she can
nay will do Mrs. Brandon muoh harm.
T am to dine here."
"The Brandon are coming. Now, to
please me, stop away.'
""Yon are very kind and hospitable. I
have refused five other invitat one, and now
Won want to turn me loose without any
ddlnnner at all."
" Don't dome, there's a dear hey 1"
Lord Ravenhold gets very angry and does
'}ot attempt to conceal his ill humor. He
leaves Grosvenor Place in wrath.
Two morningslater, Lord Ravenhold,
sauntering down the shady side of the park,.
adapies his sister and Mrs. Brandon sitting
ttagether. On'Hermione's left is the man
who is her . greatest friend -a man whom
the world would onoe have liked to whisper
scandal about in oonneotitonwith her, only
that he and she had tact and courage
enough to nip all cause for such whisper-
ings in the bud. The seat beside Vanessa
fs vacant, and Ravenhold, his heart beating
r* trifle faster, and his eyes darting a glance i
of defiance at his cis-er, takes swift posses- I
°fon of it.
Mrs. Pane yields to the inevitable -she
has, besides rl good' deal to say to her com-
panion, so Ravenhold and Vanes,a are
raft to their own devices. They
i
F.
T will bring
you baok rrti e.to
dregs.
"fenny," speaking aoroes Vanessa to hie
eieter, "" willyou none down and dine at
Hurlingham on Tuesday? And you,Aueon?"
to her neighbor-,
Mrs. Fane hesitates.
"It would be very pleaeant," Mr. Anson
says, quietly. And that turns the bat•
arms iu Mrs. Fane'° mind. After all, she
ie not her brother's keeper nor Mrs.
Brandon's,
"
' And we will ask Uncle Charlie,„ adds
Ravenhold;.
” Oh, do 1" exciaims Vanessa, ea eagerly
that the young man feels half inclined to be
jealous.
Lord Eavenhold doe not see Mrs. Brandon
again until the following Tuesday:; He
writes her a pretty little note of reminder,
and she replies to it. Like a child she.
watches the weather eagerly and is rejoiced.
when she day dewne hot and fair. Raven -
hold is to dome first to Bryanston Square,
and then to pick up the rest of the party ab
Grosvenor Piece..
" There is Lsdy Mildred!" exolaims
Vanessa, and she bends a little forward,
wishing to catch that lady's eye, nob, you
may be sure, from any triumphant feeling of
rivalry. She is her husband's and he is hers;
other women's husbande and lovers
are safe from her. The meeting is
unlucky.
Thus the colonel to himself, as they sweep
down Queen's Gate and along the narrow
and unsavory streets: which lead to when
seems paradise to Vanessa, bub presents
itself in quite a different shape to our solilo-
quist.
CHAPTER XVII.
The dinner is a cheery one. Lord Raven -
hold is assiduous in his attentions to his
fair guest. .tlr. Anson and Mrs. Fane are
occupied with each other,. and Colonel
Dallas, who has too much' good taste to be
a trouble fete, talks to the husband with an
excellent grace, and consoles himself with
his dinner, to which he is by no means in-
different. to
both he and Ravenhold
are perfectly aware of the attachment be-
tween Roland Anson and Hermoine, it gives
neither any disquitude-they have had
ample proof before now of the man's honor
and the woman's rectitude of principle..
Roland Anson is one of the few men capable
of loving a woman batter than himself.
Something of . Ravenhold'a habitually
caressing manner to pretty women is creep-
ing into his demeanor to Vanessa -he is
conscious of it himself, and pauses, once
now and again, to look over at her hus-
band, who, nowever, shows not the smallest
symptom of jealousy. After dinner, the
host proposes an adjournment to thegarden,
and again the three couples pair off. It
would be perfectly easy for Brandon tokeep
near his wife, who eras not the smallest
desire to elude him, and, of the two, would
rather stroll about with him, hanging lov-
ingly on his arm, than with Ravenhold, but
he is as sure and confident of her now as
leen year he was doubting and diffident.
Now they are sitting on a bench on the
greensward under the great starlit canopy
of the dark -blue sky. It is quite light
enough for each to see the expression of the
other's face.
" How happy you seem 1" says Raven -
hold, almost enviously, and he heaves a
deep, deep sigh, as though such happiness
were rather displeasing to him.
" I am happy," she answers, with a low,
contented laugh. " What a good thing it is
to be happy -very happy 1"
" Have you never been unhappy?" he
asks, rather mournfully.
" Never. Never in my life."
" I did not know there was any one in
the world who could make tach a boast as
that," utters Ravenhold.
" Bub you ?'says Vanessa, gayly. " You
do not give me the idea of au unhappy per-
son, Lord Ravenhold-"
" One does not wear one's heart upon
one's sleeve," he answers. "Bat if one is
always tormented by a want that cannot
be satisfied, do you think one can be
happy 2"
Vanessa imagines that he is thinking of
Lady Mildred ; that his words apply toiler.
She likes him too mach to want to .be his
censor, but she is shocked at the thought of
unlawful passion.
" If one can not have a thing," ' ahe
answers, lookiugdown at the turf beneath
their feet whilst his eyes is fixed on her
face, "ought not one try to do without it 2"
"No," he Bays, emphatically, seeing that
she is interpreting him wrongly. " Not if
it a thine; that is right and fair to want.
not if one is obeying the first law of nature
by wanting it.
Vanessa looks up at him a little startled.
Having a rooted idea that it is Lady Mil-
dred whom he wants, 'she does not under-
stand hie speech.
" To my mind there is only one thing fn
the world worth having," utters Ravenhold,
with a low voice but with intense earnest
nese, whilst he keeps his eyes fixed on the
lovely face which it seems to him might
crownthe hopes and desires of the most
fastidious man living. " That is love :
ardent, passionate love; noes mere paltry
fancy which soon subsides into an easy-
going liking or else into indifference, but a
love that occupies every momont of one's
life ; that keeps every nerve full strung ; a
love that is heaven or hell, but, as I would
have it, heaven."
She understands him, his words touch a
chord in her heart -that, in the plentitude
of her youth and passion, is when she too
craves. Dearly as she loves her husband,
she has already felt bitter disappointment
at' the fading of his passion, whilst here has
Kegin by talking' about the ball rather 'increased, No matter then his
at which they met two uigttte previ- love is traer, faithfuller than ever, it is not
on.aly. She found it charming, and praises the love she desires ; not the love she had
the floor, the music, the 'decorations, the laetTear-
ftowers, with enthusiasm. He, on the son- s " You have no sister, have you ?" he
teary, has little good to say of it but then, asks, presently.
in his mind, it is aseooiated with very dila- " No ; I am an only child."
greeable recollections. " I wish you would find nee sense one to
Perhaps," he says, " it was the fright- ' love," he says, coming a little nearer to
ful snub you gave me which prevented my her. "" Tell me, have you no friend who
finding itpleasanb." you think would answer to my ideal 2"
" Sub 1 " Vannes, echoes his word, and Vanesaa muses. Naturally her thoughts
her great eyes look troubled and dia- fly first to the friends of her girlhood, Edith
treated. and Mabel. But Edith's heart is already
" Did you really think me a profane Sab- engaged, and Mabel would certainly not
bath -breaking wretch for proposing to drive suit Lord Ravenhold, who looks for both
you out to dials on Sunday, or was it a passion and sympa hy.
little excuse to get off dining with me at Do you think,"he asks, softly, " that
all 2" marriage is really�ya good thing?'' Is one,
Vanessa lock» positively unhappy, happier married? and she answers with.
" Oh, Lord R %venhold, why do you say out a moment's hesitation.
that ?" ahe erxolairtia, " You are not seri- " Oh, muoh, much happier 1"
ons -.yon do nor. reallbelieve its 2 There ""We ought to be looking osis for our
til nothin . in the world I should havo en- party," she eons. "I don't think you 'will
joyed so niucb." fulfil your promise of taking me home in
Then ynu really think it, wrong to go time to dress for the balL"
" lest ming' on a Sunday 2 Wheel is it " Donot go l" he whispers, putting out .a
that shocks you w.et-the "
dieing • or the hand ea though to detain her ; their, as if
driving?" r anddenly changing his mind, he says,
He dogs net say i0•iti a•.lranLorrng'tnne, as . abruptly, Agog tdo, Yes, i 'darn say we
the words s-e,al to !triply, but (oohe at her ! had ,better „go:"
quite set' este, • As they step oh the ,gravel" path, they
u
confront a tall, thin than
'at • either,, -she o of h and e: young Indy;
ttl5awcrr, its ,i'•. "" f• do not thinkkformer ,. any. The is Sit Bertraln,
thing w, .' t fel ether people'; .it is only Revere) old is just heeding to slay Borne -
that I hev 11,5 leen eceusto"lted to it, my. thieg`to Vanessa-his;'meenl;r ie di• weedy
self." impresse. Sir Bertram stops suddenly,
Thee Benner weekday yet might be' looks at the pair and addressee them, He
deduced u1 aeric. 2' has tensed Vanessa fifty Linnet iu the #tow
I should like it better, Asan any. without the ernallest ree,,,tnttinn-ito•hi,rht
ening," elle answers, With uirnlistakeble he erpets her like an old friend.
sincerity. "Mrs. Brandon -this tr e,tr unexpected
flow would sox t 'ruegday suit von 2" Pleasure. How ate your Ravealtold?
"{ Wa r in to nein we Ninetieea is so taken bysur vise that she
We r s going air li, but hate no i
dinner engagement," rosponds as though they were still oil this
same friendly terms, as last year before she
see 'le
gave him mortal o>�enoe, Deeides, h f e.a
no rancor, and is rather glad that the old
gontiomau should show a disposition to be
friendly.
Ravenhold, who is acquainted with Sir
Bortram's companion, enters into converea-
with her, and aminute later Colonel Dallas
and John Brandon come up.
both Bertram greats b th with extreme
affability, Before they part he has asked.
for Mrs. Brandon's address and permission
to nail upon her, which she readily agoorde.
The drive home through the balmy night
ie delicious, even though the road is ugly
and unpicturesqque, They are nearing the
Marble Arch and Vanessa says in tones of
most genuine regret:
" How sorry T am that weare getting
near home 1"
He stoops toward her and eaya in a very
low voiice, but with a bitter accent :
Why should you be sorry ? You are
going home to happiness. It is 1 who am
bait out in the cold."
She answers him gayly enough.
"I will do as you ask nee and look out for
a nine wife for you ; then you won't.be left
out in the cold."
He does not reply-ahe is nob so sympa-
thetic as she looks, her gay tone jars upon
him.
But, in reality, Vanessa is feeling in-
tensely aeLtintentel. When she and her
husband have wished Ravenhold good-
night, and thanked him for their pleasant
evening, she does not, late as it is, hurry off
to dress for the bell, but follows her hus-
band into his comfortable smoking room..
She throws her arms round his neck -she is
in a mood for endearmenta-ahe pushes him
gently into a chair and seats herself on his
knee, He responds to her caress in a kind,
friendly, semi -paternal manner, then,glanc.
ing at the clock, says :
" My dear child, pray go and dress, or we
shall not get to Grosvenor Square till day-
light 1"
She starts up with a petulant- gesture
which he has never seen before and
scarcely realizes now. As she mounts the
stairs, a sob is choking her, too great ,tears
are shining in her eyes ; a sense of bitterest
disappointment gnaws her heart. She would
like to give vent to her feelings by a passion
of tears and sobs, but in her room stands
her attentive maid waiting to dress her,
and ahe is forced to choke back her soba,
don a falsely placid fare, act like a sensible
and well-mannered lady instead of a
pettish child who does not know what ib is
Drying for.
For the first time in her life shefeels
bitter against her husband. She tells her-
self with an aching heart, as she sits
under the hands of her maid, that he is
tired of her, that he is nob really fond of
her any longer -and she remembers with
painful distinctness Ravenhold's words :
" There is only one thing worth having in
the world -love, passionate love ; not a
mere paltry fancy, which soon enbaidee into
easy-going liking, or else into indifference,
but a love that occupies every moment of
one's life ; that keeps every nerve full
strung ; a love that is heaven or hell, but,
as I would have it, heaven." Yes, that is
what she too desires.
CHAPTER XVIII.
The next morning Colonel Dallas cameto
escort Vanessa into the Row. He was feel-
ing a little bit piqued and touched, but she
received him in the same glad, cordial
manner as usual. It was a lovely moraine
with a delicious breeze, and they concluded
to walk. The colonel had been thinking.
seriously of reading his lovely friend a little
lecture, and was trying to makeup his mind
howto commence the attack.
" Ravenhold looks rather sulky," he
says, broaching hie theme far more broadly
and directly than a minute ago he had in-
tended. " What did you do to him last
night 2"
"1 1" utters Vanessa. " Nothing. Lord
Ravenhold and I are the beat of friends.
Our ideas agree perfectly. We both think
there is nothing in the world worth having
but love, and I am going to find him a
wife."
The colonel feels and looks as if a yawn-
ing chasm had opened at his feet."
" Oh," he says, and for the moment he
can positively hnd nothing else to 'remark.
A slight melancholy pervades Vanesse'a
features -her own words have brought back
that vague yearning and the sense of disap-
pointment ahe felt last night. The colonel,
looking at her, observes her espreaaion, and
it displeases him amazingly.
"I don't think," he remarke, in a short,
dry tone, " that you have very much to
complain of on that score."
" Ah !" observes the colonel, with ex-
treme dryness, " I suppose that after listen-
ing to his exalted senbimcnte you would
find mine very flat and commonplace. But,
all the same, let me give you the result of
my experience."
Vanessa experiences a sensation of un-
easiness Has she betrayed the tinge of
diaappointment which has crept into her
heart now and again during the last few
months and found its first serious expression
only the night before ?.
" What do you mean 2" she cries. "Do
you think I do nob know it ? Do you
think Ido not know I have the beat hus-
band in the, world? Why, it was the sight.
of our happiness that made Lord Ravenhold,
want to marry."
Vaneesa's eyes, straying down the path,
observe Lord Ravenhold and Sir Bertram
engaged in conversrtion at a little distance
from them ; she sees them part, and then
Sir Bertram comes toward her. He stops in
front of her, holds out his hand, and smiles.
It can scarcely be called a smile; it is rather
a spasm of the upper lip, as if someone had
pulled a wire is his side --a spasm revealing
bib long, yellowish teeth. He greets Colonel
Dallas also. The colonel returns the salute
rather frigidly, and looks away up the Row
inamannerthat intimates hie intention of
effacing: himself until Sir Bertram obeli have
said his any to Mrs: Brandon. Sir Bertram
thereupon coolly takes the seat beside
Vanessa.
" I want you to comp down and dine with
me at my little place on the river," he says,
in his most affable tones, " you and Mr.
Brandon. Can you spare me an evening
this week 2 Would Saturday suit you. 2
" We are notengaged on Saturday, and
we should like it very much indeed."
" Y must try to get my nieces to meet
you," utters Sir Bertram, well aware of the
attractive bait he is offering. ",Have you
heard that Mabel in engaged to be marrieds'
"No 1" exclaims Vanessa, eagerly. " is
it th---" and thenshe pauses.
" It ie to Sir Thomas Bolton," answers
Sir Bertram. " We are pleased with the
rather a disparity ma ria o. There' ie art of
r
g9
age between her and Sir Thomas, but that
is not ,always a drawback is` it, IMO.
Brandon ?"
'el obeli be so delighted to see them
again," she says,, liaatily.,.
"? Then," saga Sir Berttafn, rising, " I
may look forward. to the pleasure of peeing:
you both ea Saturday. Will you drive'
down about G, so as to have a little tithe on
tits water drat a"
1 cul ask my husband, and send you a
tine, if I may," replies Venom,.
" Yee, pray do ; but mind, I look upon it
already ae ran engageeritnt,"
Sir Bertram bays,this with stiff playful -
bees, takes Mrs. Brandon's hand, gives a
frigid bow to COL I#etlas, and goes.
"I wonder what his game is 1" soya the
of nminati
o ee 1, annihilating.
" leo gene ab all, my dear colonel,"
taught ,
Vanesaa. What a suapioiout
mood you are in 1 1)o you think he, like
Lord Ravenhold, wants to supplant my
husband ? I promiee you not to talk about
love to him nor to take a moonlight. stroll
With him if ?i can help it,"
The oolonel traces au elaborate pattern
with hit stink -he is still absorbed in speou-
lacing about the nature of the squire's gone.
Lord Ravenhold passes them again. This
time he is walking with a very handsome
girl, to whorl he appears to be making him-
self extremely agreeable.
The oolonel gives up thinking about Sir
Bertram's g»me in order to study his
nephew's. `f hat takes very little thought
-he wishes to pique Mrs. Brandon. The
attempt is an utter failure.
"There 1" whispers Vanessa, with an ao-`
cent of triumph that is thoroughly genuine.
" Yousee he has refloated about my advice.
I with he would marry Lady Violet."
"Pooh 1" says the oolonel, "If he mar-
ried all the women he looked at in that
languishing manner, he would have as many
wives as Solomon by now. And, fond as I
am of the lad, I don't think I than envy the
woman very much whom he makes Lady
Ravenhold."
" Why nob 2" asks Vaness. "" He is
very handsome and very nice."
Yes,""" responds the colonel. And he
will go on being very handsome and very
nine after he is married."
" What do you mean 2"
" Cannot you interpret my parable, my
lady 2"
• " You mean that he will be nice to
other people as well as his cite," hazards
Vanessa.
" Well, look here, my taffy,"he says
gazing carefully at the heiroglypha he is
still employed in tracing, "even if a woman
is devoted to her husband, there are times
when -when perhaps she feels a little pat
out him. He is not quite so attentive
orso demonstrative as she thinks he ought
to be, and she gets a little bit froissee or
disappointed. Then, you know, if some
good-looking young fellow is hanging about
Gelling her that she is quite the moat angelic
creature in the world, and hinting perhaps
thatshe is not appreciated, and that if she
were his wife -well, h'm l don't you
sea - r
" My dear colonel," she says, " do not
put these ideas into my head, or I shall
begin to think it is dangerous to my peace
of mind to see so much of you. You know
you are always praising and flattering me.
I shall have to be on my guard."
" Yes, there is no aoubb I am a very
dangerous fellow," returns the colonel. He
has said his say and does not care to pursue
the subject any further. " Do you know,"
looking at his watch, " that it is ten min-
utes to two 2"
" We must go home to lunch," says
Vanessa, rising promptly.
When she telis her husband of the invita-
tion for Saturday, he remarks, cheerily :
" You were quite right my dear. I can-
not nay I like Sir Bertram. He was ex-
tremely rude to me last year ; but, poor old
fellow, it was not to be wondered at. It
wilt be Histo for you to see your friends
again."
Naturally," replies Brandon.
On the Saturday fixed for Vanessa's visit
to Sir Bertram, she is in a state of restless
excitement -she is longing to see her old
friends ; several times she has been on the
point of writing to them, but has thought
it better to wait for their meeting wader Dir
Bertram'e auspices. He heart beats quite
fast as they drive up to the door of of his
esiver•side chateau. They are ushered into
the drawing room ; a moment later their
host steps in at the Wrench windows open-
ing on the lawn.
•" Are Edith and Mabel here 2" asks Van-
essa, as soon as she has greeted him with
the usual formula.
" I am so sorry," he answers, " they are
unable to come."
As a matter of fact he has not invited
them, nor mentioned Mrs. Brandon's name
to them.
" I askedtwo or three pleasant people to
meet you," he continues," bat at this time
of the year it is impossible to get any one at
a short notice. Yon will find one friend,
however."
And as he speaks Lord Ravenhold comes
strolling up the lawn.
CHAPTER XIX.
Vanessa's disappointment iaso severe that
it appears legibly on her fade. And it is
not in the least atoned for by the sight of
Lord Ravenhold, whose name has lately
been made a weariness to her flesh. She
greets him in an indifferent manner, very
foreign to her habitual one. He, on the
contrary, looks pleased and smiling, and is
evidently anxious to make himself agree-
able.
ree-able. When, at Sir Bertram's proposal, the
party betake themselves to the boat, Van-
essa devotes her conversation entirely to
her host, and her husband and his lordship
are left to entertain each other.
Dinner over, ahe adjourns to the drawing.
room, but does' not remain there .long, see-
ing the river shining temptingly at the end
of the lawn. She strolls out ane seats her-
self on a bench close to the: water's edge
She has been slitting by the water-'
side but a very few minutes, as
she thinks, when Lord. Ravenhold
cornea with a buoyant step across the
turf to join her. His manner .is altogether
jubilees and triumphant ; he carries his
head well up, his eyes ace alight with
pleasure.
But for the monitions of the colonel and
Mrs. Fane, coupled with: Lady Mildred's
insolent behavior, Vanessa would have
greeted him with her bestsmile of welcome.
As it is, she is secretly irritated, and, her
face denotes neither pleasure nor gable -
faction.
" How delicious it is here 1" he exclaims.
It ie a shame to be indoors such a night."
", Where are the others?" asked Vanessa,
coolly.
" The others," replies' Lord Ravenhold,
laughing, " are drinking some excellent
claret and discussing with enthusiasm the
merits of varione vintages."
Ohl"
" I thought you were going to be my
friend 3" • .
" I amuite willingto be your friend,
Lord Ravenhold," returns Mrs. Brandon,
showing, however, no disposition at present
to thaw.
" If you knew," utters Ravenhold, fixing
his eyes on her -and speaking almost pas-
sionately -4' if you knew how badly I Want
a friend, and how math the friendship of
a ivied woman like you might do for me, I
be kinder to
,r
think you would wme.
Beforea this appeal the ice gives
way, and
there bee, very noticeable difference in the
tone of Mra. Brandon'arejoinder.
" What oan I do for you t li should be
glad to be your friend for your sister"t
sake."
Each is consoione that, a little .ps.esage off
arms, is, going on. between. them,
""ft is dangerone to be too seduce,' re.
marked Ravenhold. "Feelings are apt to
change."
" Are they ? l am quite aura ming will
not.'
Her tone is defiant. She Wises him
clearly to understand that there' is not the
amnion probability of her ever' entertain,
ing any fegard. for hint.
Tie is silent for a moment; then he utters
in amortified tone, looking awayacro
ss the
moonlit water;
" No wonder, if you think me a fool and
is puppy, you do not oars to melee friends
with me."
Vanessa ie instantly smitten with re
mores.
"I do not think anything of the sort,"
eho says, smiling at. him.
" Yee, you do, .he answers impetuously.
"
YOU have probably been uautionedagainst,
me. I have admired and respected you
more than any woman I havo ever met -the
thing of all others that charmed me in you
was your devotion to your husband, and
you think beat I am an egotietioel, pre.
Bumptious fool, who ie only to bo , (retrained
from making love to you by the most severe
and constantly repeated snu6e."
"What am I to do?" she exolaims, bit.
puleively. "If every one insists) on warning
me against you, and in believing that if you
honor me by your notice I shall straightway
fall in love with you, how am I to convince
them that it Ls possible for a woman, even
in society, even in the age we live in, to
prefer her own husband to the handsomest
man, or the most exalted personage alive?"
"I should have thought ysu were too
clever to be influenced by a pack of fools,"
returns Ravenhold. "1-I suppose -that -
Mr. Brandon has never objected to your
being in my society 2"
He !" echoes' Vanessa i throwing up.her
head with a fine scorn. No, indeed. He,
at least, known me."
Ravenhold feels the least bit in the world
foolish.
" Of course,' he says. " Ile would not
deserveyou if he did nob. But now, Mrs.
Brandon,' pleadingly, " won't you judge
me for yourself, instead of listening to
what my wise and goodnatured relations
say Y Be friends with me out of the good-
ness of your heart, because I want a
friend, and if you find me taking advantage
of your kindness, or trying to do so, kick
me out, and have nothing more ,•to say to.
me." ; :,
So Vanessa smiles and makes 'a compact
with him, and the rest of the time which
they spend together is pasted in perfect
harmony. It wants a quarter to .eleven
when: Sir Bertram and Mr. Brannon join
them. Both, seem in the beet of spirits -it
is evident that no qualm has visited the
huaband about his wife's tete-a-tete with.,
Lord Ravenhold.
To be Continued.)
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