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280 OUT OF HER SPHERE.<br />

** A music-teac<strong>her</strong> or governess, I believe.<br />

Mrs. Eusliington always doubted she sang<br />

much too well for a lady. You certainly<br />

do n't <strong>of</strong>ten hear such a voice or such exe-<br />

cution in a drawing-room. Her manner,<br />

too, savoured just a little <strong>of</strong> the stage —<br />

pale, with good features, dark hair, and<br />

abundance <strong>of</strong> it—all <strong>her</strong> own too, I should<br />

say—fine dark eyes, which she was in the<br />

habit <strong>of</strong> making rat<strong>her</strong> too much use <strong>of</strong>."<br />

" They were not happy toget<strong>her</strong> you say,<br />

she and <strong>her</strong> husband V<br />

"Not recently—not since the poor devil<br />

became possessed with this craze <strong>of</strong>jealousy."<br />

" I should say she was just the woman<br />

to play him a trick in return for the one he<br />

had tried to play <strong>her</strong>. Make <strong>her</strong> way out<br />

<strong>of</strong> the Fort, and leave him with the pleas-<br />

ing delusion that she had made <strong>her</strong> way-<br />

out <strong>of</strong> the world. Why, <strong>her</strong> voice would<br />

get <strong>her</strong> a living anyw<strong>her</strong>e."<br />

*'I wish we could find it so. I'm ad-

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