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332 MRS. RICHARDS’ GREAT EXPECTATIONS. avoided,” sighed the young lord, as, with another fond glance at the picture, he covered it again and turned away. ‘“You will be more successful when you go to her again,” Ralph said, cheerfully. ‘* Yes,’ Archie returned, with firmly compressed lips; ‘‘ Miss Gladstone z// listen to me when I goto her again. It is but right that she should hear my justification, whether she receives it favorably or otherwise. ” ‘‘] have no fear of the result,” his guest returned, smiling; ‘‘for Miss Gladstone acknowledged to me that, in spite of her belief in your unworthiness, her affection for you remained the same.” A flush of joy shct over Lord Carrol’s face at this. ‘“Did she tell you that?” he asked, eagerly. ‘‘Then I will doubt no more; and | have you to thank for bestowing such happiness upon me as I| never expected to know again.” ‘They spent a half hour longer looking at other pictures, but Sweet sounds coming up again from the drawing-room dis- tracted Ralph's attention and tempted him below. ‘‘Do I not hear the fair songstress of last night again?’ he asked. ‘Yes that is Vivien singing,” replied her brother. ‘‘T ar very fond of music; shall we rejoin the company?” They went down, and, seeking the fair Vivien’s side, Ralph Meredith spent a most del'ghtful evening, the memory of which clung to him for many a week afterward. _ The next morning he left London for a three-months’ tour through Scotland, Ireland, and the Continent. 2K *K ** ok ** Mrs. Richards sat in her hancsome boudoir one morning a few weeks later, reading a newspaper. Something had evidently gone wrong with her, for her face was overcast, an angry red glowed in her cheeks, and her eyes gleamed with a sullen fire. Eomicbooks, Go