I Forbid the Banns! — page 137: what you’re looking at

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ON THE POWER OF A NEW SENSATION. 127 ‘“‘ Bertha, Bertha!”’ cried the stranger, catching both her hands in his and holding them without showing the least sign. of letting them drop. “ After seven months here we are together again. When you left us it was springtime in Australia, and now you bring the spring to us here in England.” As the man spoke Charlton was conscious of a sensation that was altogether new to him. A singular passion throbbed through his veins and caused him to tremble. He felt an extraordinary interest in the man, and yet he felt that he had never hated aman until now. The sensa- tion was new to him. He had never experienced the pas- sion of jealousy, for the simple reason that he had never been in love before. Then the elder man came up and put out a long, Jean hand to Mrs. Hardy. : ‘“ Hannah,” said he, “welcome back to your home. Niece Bertha, you are welcome. You have grown. Has it been in grace, eh?” “ Have you no eyes, Matthew?” said Mrs. Hardy ; and from the tone which she assumed, Charlton knew in a moment that she was speaking to her husband. “Can't you see that she is grace itself?” “ Outwardly, yes,” said Mr. Hardy; “but the inward and spiritual—is it there, is it there ?”’ | “How are the carnisolists, Uncle Matthew?” said Bertha, her eyes overflowing with laughter. ‘Oh, let the carnisolists, or whatever they call them- selves, rest a while,” said the young man. ‘“ Let them rest until I have had a good chat with Bertha. Come along, Bertha,” he cried in that honest, frank voice of his, putting his hand inside Bertha’s arm in the most confidential way imaginable. ‘Come along, and tell me all about your voyages. So you went to Calcutta?” Bertha took only one step up the deck. She saw the CONNIE IOOKS (E(0)