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34 “THE DEAD LIVES.” his nature, all combined to interest her beyond any senti- ment ever before inspired in her vain, egotistical heart. Not only did his visits dispel the dullness from Lucerne, but she found herself expecting his arrival each evening with a fevered impatience. As for him, he did not know that it was the principle of her life, the law of her being, to make all men whom she fancied her slaves. He did not guess that the glad light in her eyes, which welcomed him daily to those de- licious hours of intoxicating association with her beauty and cultured intelligence, was only an igmis fafuus that was luring him into the dismal sloughs where men too often sink their souls. Moreover, her sad condition, of which she herself was ignorant, seemed to demand from him a degree of tender consideration and unremitting attention that placed his constant presence at Lucerne in the light of a duty. Mrs. Morgan, too, seemed to find infinite pleasure in his visits. Even when too weak and ill to talk with him, she would have Leda bring him into her chamber, and silently enjoy the sprightly conversation between them. From this quiescent state of blissful infatuation Mr. Warren was suddenly aroused by an announcement from his partner, Mr. Croft, that it was necessery for him (War- ren) to depart forthwith to one of the North-west cities on urgent business for the law firm. Besides all considerations of professional etiquette, which obliged him, as the younger member, to take upon comicbooks.¢co