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 room, and felt as incapable of happiness as if she had been allowed no share in it.

As she walked slowly up stairs she thought of yesterday; it had been about the same hour that she had returned from the Parsonage, and found Edmund in the east room.—"Suppose I were to find him there again to-day!" said she to herself in a fond indulgence of fancy.

"Fanny," said a voice at that moment near her. Starting and looking up she saw across the lobby she had just reached Edmund himself, standing at the head of a different staircase. He come towards her. "You look tired and fagged, Fanny. You have been walking too far."

"No, I have not been out at all."

"Then you have had fatigues within doors, which are worse. You had better have gone out."

Fanny, not liking to complain, found it easiest to make no answer; and though