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96 her apparent gratification. But the sunshine soon shadowed. In a month she began to complain. Anthony was jealous of her. He grudged her the full measure of the joy he had introduced her to. He counted up carefully the expenses of the honor she had everywhere done him. Jonathan took no notieenotice [sic] of her complaints. He rather enlarged upon the unexpected enjoyments that had fallen to her lot. He expressed without stint his pride in her, and in her position, and he always spoke of Anthony with respect and admiration.

"Things will rub themselves smooth and right if nobody interferes with them," he thought; and then he called to mind several matrimonial cases where things had rubbed themselves "smooth and right."

Aske had taken the house in London for three months, and the term was rapidly drawing to a close. In the beginning of August Eleanor would be at home again, and he began to look forward to her arrival with a sense of pleasant expectation. One morning he awoke with her name on his lips, and she was his first thought as he opened his eyes. It troubled him that his heart fell with it It was a hot, sunny day, and