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wr 42 A HEART'S: BITTERNESS. talk. She never could be happy or enjoy anything ever again. Next morning Leigh sent to inquire if Lady Leigh was better and intended to appear at breakfast. Violet returned word that she would breakfast with him. 7 Norman Leigh, as the graceful, slender figure in white pique and cherry ribbons entered the sunny little break- fast-room, realized that his wife was very sweet and attrac- tive. A silent, shy, flying creature she had been, even in the blaze of the ball-rooms or the glitter of opera-houses. But now, as he watched the play of varying emotions on that strangely mobile face, the sun and shadow drifting over the brown, changeful eyes, he felt the charm of her _ winsomeness. This was, no doubt, a very attractive being whom he shortly would take to the home of his ancestors. He kissed her hand, and asked after her health with more interest than he had ever before shown. “You need a little excursion to set you up,” hesaid. ‘‘ If you like I will take you to Chantilly, and we will row about the Courmelle Lakes. I don’t mind trips where I can do anything, and I believe I’d like to pull an oar.” — Thanks,” said Violet, eargerly. She longed to get away from Paris, even for a day—to fly the air breathed by Keith. Suppose he should come again and load her with reproaches for her unfaithfulness and ready suspicion? They went to Chantilly, and Leigh got his boat and pulled his oar. Looking up in the midst of this delight- some exercise, He caught Violet’s eyes bent on him, with a - singular expression—wistful, pained, reproachful, pitiful, hike a wronged child. JT say, Violet,” he exclaimed, ‘‘I don’t think you had a very lively bringing up, and it makes you moody. You must go about more. Wasn’t it dused dull down there in Lincolnshire?” | os “T liked it; I knew nothing else,” said Violet: ° ““ And what did your grim old grandmother talk about?” _ **Mostly warning me never to marry, as people would only follow me and marry me for my money, not myself.” ‘They might have said that if you were an ogress. I say it was very stupid talk, fit to make you suspicious.” (€(0) ~Comicbooks