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HIS GRACE. | 201 a few months as next year or the year after. For several reasons, in fact, the sooner it comes the better I shall be pleased. The sooner it comes the more likelihood there will be of our saving enough out of the wreck for him to live upon; though not enough, I trust, to tempt Miss St. George, with whom I saw him riding in Rotten Row just now.” Nora looked very grave at this. ‘“ Was he riding with her?” she asked. “If Lady Deverell hears of that, she will be furious. As it was, there was very nearly a quarrel at breakfast time because Miss St. George in- sisted upon going out with the groom, and it did seem odd that she should be so determined to do what she had never cared to do before. They must have been seen together, of course.” ‘“‘Qh, they must have been seen together,” I agreed. ‘They must have been seen by several hundreds, not to say thousands, of persons: besides your humble servant. But that is rather more Miss St. George’s look-out than yours or mine, isn’t it?” Nora made no immediate reply. She had received me in a small room—so small that it ought, perhaps, rather to be described as a recess of the drawing-room, from which it was separated by looped-up curtains and by one of those perforated cedar-wood screens where- with the army of occupation in Egypt has flooded the abodes of its friends at home. While we were talking, she had been arranging cut flowers in a multitude of bowls and specimen-glasses, in preparation, I suppose, for a dinner-party, and she silently pursued this employ- ment for some time before she said : “T am afraid you will think I am jealous of Miss St. George, Phil, but you will be mistaken if you do think Gomichboo cS (E(0) im