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tenet — me Divided. “9 tion, lifting up to him the side of her cheek so that he could, if he wished, kiss her on the ear. Not being used to more demonstrative embraces, Raoul made the best of it; and, without another word or reproach, saw her safely into the house. ‘There was a light burning in Monsieur Lenard’s private room, so he sat patiently there, awaiting to hear that fussy little gentleman’s view of things and to give him his own opinion on the subject. Denise nodded ‘‘ good-night,” then rushed up to her own room, where she tried to expend some of her indignation by pacing up and down like a caged lion. CHAPTER II. A VERY YOUNG COUPLE. Ir we recollect the unnatural system of marriage which is still almost universal in France, we shall not feel unmixed surprise at the strained relations between Monsieur and Madame de Kériadec. On the whole,they compared favourably with the majority of French married couples, for there was love at least on one side; and on both, since- rity and a singularly high sense of honour. Denise Lenard was an orphan. Since the age of fourteen, when her parents died, she had been brought up by her uncle, Monsieur Gustave Lenard, and his wife; who, having no children of their own, were delighted to adopt her as their daughter, and were as devotedly indulgent to her as the most doting father and mother could have been. Monsieur Gustave Lenard was manager of a little theatre which, in what was a respectable way for Paris, was rather popular on account of the lightness—tempered with just enough excitement and tragic emotion—of its performances. They were always well acted and weil put on the stage, and, if they did not aspire very high, at least they avoided too decided a licence of vulgarity. It had always been an understood thing that, under the auspices of Monsieur Lenard, Denise should go upon the stage when she was seventeen or eighteen, and she had been brought up and educated with this end always in view. Her father having died in poverty, left her dependent on her own exertions; and as she was pretty and clever, both nature and circumstances seemed to point to the profes- sion of an actress as her vocation in life. Madame Lenard, her aunt, did not quite adopt this view. She was too fond of the girl to approve of her entering into any profes- sion, especially one so full of pitfalls as the stage. But Monsieur Lenard over-ruled her ; and when Denise was seventeen she made her first appearance in public, in some simple role suited to her par- ticular style of talent She had been well trained, had a certain CORnNICLOO CS (©) an