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OUT OF HER SPHERE.<br />

brought a lady out alone so far from the<br />

town.<br />

She went in through the old dismantled<br />

portal, and decided upon going at once up<br />

the stairs, old and crumbling as they were.<br />

The lower part <strong>of</strong> the Fort was still so wet<br />

that it afforded but an unpleasant standing<br />

for any one lightly shod. On the storey<br />

above it would at least be dry, and she<br />

might see Audley coming. Gat<strong>her</strong>ing <strong>her</strong><br />

skirts carefully round <strong>her</strong>, she prepared to<br />

mount the stairs, and did so, complaining<br />

a lihtle to <strong>her</strong>self <strong>of</strong> the difficulty she found<br />

in the ascent. Perhaps if she had con-<br />

sidered all these disagreeables before she<br />

started, she might have found anot<strong>her</strong><br />

trysting place. The chance <strong>of</strong> tearing <strong>her</strong><br />

dress, and soiling <strong>her</strong> skirts, might have<br />

kept <strong>her</strong> away from the Fort if no ot<strong>her</strong><br />

consideration would have done so.<br />

But as she was t<strong>her</strong>e, she resolved, after<br />

<strong>her</strong> usual philosophy, to make the best

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