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44 . 4 SUDDEN WOOING, ‘Then he leaped on his horse, and was Ene, and she. walked home with a feeling of sadness in her heart, for it- seemed to her that he had gone off with less care to meet again than she had, though how a meeting could have come about she did not know. eae She said nothing to Goody White of this meeting, for what would be the use? And she said nothing of it te ne father, for again what would be the use? eet a ee eee CHAPTER III. A SUDDEN WOOING. The next afternoon Violet did not go singing and tripe | ping the way to the abbey. She was strangely quiet, yet not unhappy. She went as she had returned on the ee before, and she found herself lingering on the bridge any thinking of the very words that had been spoken there. And when she had seated herself and begun her sketch- ‘ing her pencil did not mo¥e very swiftly, and it came into her mind that the ruins before her belunged to Guy, Lord Darlington. That was a sort of pleasure to her, and she wondered why. Strange, too, how she would ‘think of. him as Guy, instead of the more formal Lord Darlington. Then there came a crushing of the leaves from a dis: : tance behind her, and she knew some one was coming. — Some one from the village, she said to herself, but hark color was coming and going, and her heart was beating, | and she would not look around. Then, whoever it was stood over her and looked down, and she felt the blood” forsaking her face; but she looked up only slowly. It was Guy Darlington, and it had been in his mind to seek her there and say something to show that he was sur- prised ; but when she looked up at him, and: he saw into her eyes, that little deceit of pretending he had not ex-— pected to see her, passed out of his mind, and his face was as white as hers, as he said, softly : arias “T hoped to find you here, Violet.” 2 area “T did not hope,” she said, ‘but Iam glad. ” " Coed He made no answer to that, but sat down not far away, : and looked at her, she trying to use her pencil as if he had © not been there, and at last putting it down and folding her hands in her lap. Then she turned and looked into. his . face, and saw what she had known without seeing, that — he was looking at her. She looked a while, books. < apo co mt Kate (oo) RE i dropped her eyes, | »comicbooks.com MD