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Out of her sphere - University Library

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258 OUT OF HER SPHERE.<br />

at <strong>her</strong> ? But I hope you quite understand,<br />

sir, that our bargain does not hold good un-<br />

less you clear Audley completely. I could n't<br />

go to the garret if Milly goes abroad."<br />

"I shall keep you to your bargain, in<br />

any case," said Temple. " That is made,<br />

and we do n t go back from it."<br />

Then Milly stopped, and Beatey went<br />

up to <strong>her</strong>. Something Temple heard <strong>her</strong><br />

say in a low, caressing tone, and then she<br />

turned round and said, " Good-bye. Come<br />

to-night to the garden wall," she whispered,<br />

s<strong>of</strong>tly, and so led Milly on. Temple went<br />

his way back to his hotel, thinking what<br />

a blessed chance it was that made the<br />

Milly Lisdales <strong>of</strong> this world for ever take<br />

under their protecting love the Audley<br />

Dales.<br />

" If it were not for some such providential<br />

instinct we should die out from sheer feeble-<br />

ness, or t<strong>her</strong>e would be two distinct races,<br />

and the stronger would infallibly destroy

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