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188 OUT OF IIER SPHERE.<br />

that Audley is but a poor thing after all,<br />

and so makes the best <strong>of</strong> him. How<br />

strange it does seem that any one should<br />

care for such a piece <strong>of</strong> feebleness ! But<br />

what a good thing it is, after all, that we<br />

are not all alike in our tastes ! What<br />

would<br />

become <strong>of</strong> all the Audley Dales in the<br />

world if women didn't sometimes love<br />

them out <strong>of</strong> sheer compassion ?"<br />

If Milly was angry with any one after the<br />

first moment <strong>of</strong> vexation it was with <strong>her</strong>self<br />

She had judged and condemned <strong>her</strong> lover<br />

unheard. Beatey was not going to tell <strong>her</strong><br />

that even at the last he had had a good op-<br />

portunity <strong>of</strong> speaking in his own defence.<br />

Milly would not blame him now for any-<br />

thing ; he was in such danger that she could<br />

do nothing but pity him. Beatey tried to<br />

possess <strong>her</strong> with <strong>her</strong> own belief in Temple<br />

Masters. " He will get him over it, don't<br />

be afraid, dear ! Temple has taken it in<br />

hand, and he will carry it through."

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