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 not entertain," and her hospitable doors were opened every day in the week to some guest or guests.

Larkington, now well established in society by his month's stay in Newport, had quickly seen that Gray Grosvenor was a man to whom, for some reason, every one was extremely deferential and polite. He was evidently a man to be treated with great consideration; and the Englishman had taken the cue, though what claims this gentleman had to an over-punctilious politeness from society he had been at a loss to discover. He danced wonderfully well; that, of course, made him popular with the ladies; but then there were others who tripped as lightly the measures of Terpsichore, and had withal figures more suited to the graceful waltz than was the stout and roundabout body of Mr. Gray Grosvenor.

Larkington had asked Mrs. Craig confidentially to tell him all about this gentleman, by whom he had been considerably