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was gone. He brought his wife to Pleasance and passed one day there with her, in order that he might fancy her way of life while he was absent; and then departed, having promised positively not to dance with Madame von Moerkerke.

"I will not as you make a point of it; but I cannot think why you are jealous of that yea and nay woman, who has but the one merit of being well dressed."

"Oh, Arthur dear, remember that ball at L House, where you devoted yourself to her, and never spoke to me at all."

"Of course I did not, for remember the morning of that day, when you let that fellow