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had been so vivid 1 ocould not understand i, I got up to sce i anvone was in the roonn” " you had caught me U “ There was no one. But so acutely had vour face mmpressed isell onomy imaging- tion that I took my sketeh-hook, and made a drawmg of it then and there. In the morning I showed this drawing 1o o friend. He advised me to use 1t tor a preture. 1 did, That preture 1s A Vision ol the Night 717 It ois the most extraor- | dinary thing, Monsicur : vou - will suppose 1 am a4very pe- cuhar person, [t s but a lame cexplanation 1 have to offer. Of that T am but too con- scious. But such as 1t s, [ entreat that vou will suffer me to - give 1t vou. Monsieur, I am married ” Mr. Tovell howed. He did not mention that he was aware of that alrcady- *to the most caprictious husband the world- to a husband whom [ love, but whom 1 cannot respect.” Mr. Lovell thought that that was good from her. “He 1s o man who s extremcely difficile, Monsicur, 1 do not think yvou have a word which expresses what T would sav i Enghish. - e s extremely jealous @ he is enraged that his wife should use the eves which are o her head ! The very day on which we arrived at Spa we had o dreadiul quarrel. 1wl not speak of the treatment to which Fowas subjected e cnough to sav that he locked the door o that T should not fzave the room—he wishaed to make of me a pmsoncer. Monsicur, dircetly he was gone, T percaived that there were two doors to the room-—the one which he had Tocked, and another, which T tried. I found that 1t was open. Monsicur, when a prisoner desires to escape.s he escapes by any road which offers. 1 owas a0 prisoner | destred to escape s T made use of the only road which I could find. T entered the door

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Vs toN ol T oot

MWAGAZINT.

Flound myscll in a room in which there was

how shall T say it? in which there was man asleep. Monsteur, it was vou !”

[t must be owned that at this point the Lidy certainly did Jook down,

1owas, that night, in a wicked mood. | clinced at vou s I perceived that you were but a bov " NMr. Lovell flushed : he did not conatder himsell a bov—"but a handsomec bov.” She peeped at him with malicious lnghter moher eves. T oregarded myself as

vour mother) or vour sister, or your guardian danee],

Monsicur will perceive how much I am the clder.” Agamn, a glance of laughing mahee from those bhewitehing

cves, L am afriad 1oas

too true that 1

approached the

sleeping lips.”

There was si-

lence. Then,

so - softly that her listencer

/ was only just

able to catch v the words: 1 ~ pray that Mon- sieur will for- agive me.” “There s nothing for which Madamec nceds forgive- ~. o ness.”

y “Monsicur

but says so to

ST give me plea | sure. But one

thing Monsieur

must permit me to observe o I every woman

- P were to be re-

warded, as |

have been, for what Tdidde halt the wonmien in Trance would

commit - sl litde mdiseretion.” M.

Lovell was silent ;- he did not know exactly

what to sav. ** Monsicur will permit me to

rezard him, from this day forward, as my fricnd 2 My, Gerald Lovell, permit me to intro- duce to vou—the Vicomtesse d’Humitres |7

The Tady favoured him with another sweeping curtsey.

“ I have already the pleasure of being ac- quamted with Madame's name.”

" Irom whom did you learn it 2 people at the hotel 27

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