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202 HIS GRACE. so. I have quite got over my—my trouble now, and it isn’t on that account—of course it cou/dn’t be !—that I wish we could save him from her.” ““ She will save him and herself at one and the same time,’ I answered. “It will be a case of sauve gut peut before long, and unless I am very much mistaken in the young lady, she won’t be slow to join the general flight.” “You say that,” observed Nora, “‘ because you neither understand her nor—nor the whole position of affairs. I don’t believe she cared a bit for him when she was at Lavenham; she may have thought there was no harm in having a second string to her bow, or perhaps: she may have been flattered by his admiration. But I am certain that she does care for him now; and it is almost entirely owing to Lady Deverell’s mismanagement that she does.” | ‘Tf she cares for him enough to marry him upon a mere pittance, she is entitled to our respectful sympa- thy,” said I; ‘‘ but I venture to doubt whether her aunt will be guilty of such gross mismanagement as to let her incur a sacrifice of that heroic description.” “T am afraid she is foolish enough to marry him,” answered Nora; “I am sure she doesn’t care for him enough to put up with any privations for his sake ; and —she isn’t at all afraid of her aunt. You won’t under- stand unless I.tell you all about it, and even when I have told you, the chances are that you won’t believe the truth. However, here it is for you in all its naked- ness. Lady Deverell, of course, has wanted all along to make up a match between her niece and Mr. Gas- coigne; that much you must have seen for yourself. After a time she became alarmed by the duke’s atten- Gomichoo (9) “S (E(0)