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Rh She took no notice of the remark, but went on to detail the interesting points in the proposed visit And as Jonathan watched her luminous face all aglow with expectation, and expressing a score of flitting emotions, he thought how lovely she was, and how easy it must be for her to influence her husband, if she only took a little trouble to effect her purpose.

In about an hour Aske called. He was so handsome and so disposed to be friendly to his father-in-law and amiable to Eleanor, that an observant person would never have detected the marked authority of his manner, or her half-resentful submission to it. In the midst of a gay conversation Aske said, suddenly, "Come, Eleanor, we must go. The horses have not been exercised, and are restive."

"I don't want to go just yet" She was standing at her father's side, and she laid her hand upon his shoulder and kissed him.

"We must go now, at once." His face darkened as he reiterated the order, and his mouth, finely formed as it was, closed with an ominous resolution.

"Thou had better go, my dear lass. I know what under-worked horses are capable of, and