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was precipitately followed by Lord Melbury.

"It is not, then," he cried, "your intention to return to Mrs. Ireton?"

"No, my lord, never!"

She had but just uttered these words, when, immediately facing her, she beheld Mrs. Howel.

A spectre could not have made her start more affrighted, could not have appeared to her more horrible. And Lord Melbury, who earnestly, at the same moment, had pronounced, "Tell me VOL. IV.