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306 OUT OF HER SPHERE.
Dale, only with more freedom and abandon
in her manner. She was not on her good
behaviour now. She was not, and, to all
appearance, had forgotten that she ever was,
the Hector s wife, but when the cloth was
cleared, and the clean tumblers filled—Mrs.
Thornton, like her aunt, evidently enjoying
a modest potion of brandy and water
—
Temple Masters thought it well to recall
her attention to that fact. Accordingly
he gave her a brief recital of all that had
taken place, which she heard with the
liveliest interest, deepening into horror as
he spoke of the poor creature who had been
taken for her.
'*Poor thing! poor thing!" she cried,
and really shed a tear or two. Then she
gave her own account of her flight, and to
some extent cleared up the mystery sur-
rounding her unhappy double. She had
remained trembling with cold and fear at
the furthest end of the den to which her