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A COOL RECEPTION. 71<br />

name, that they might have an opportunity<br />

<strong>of</strong> becoming as intimate with <strong>her</strong> as their<br />

future relationship made desirable ; and<br />

altoget<strong>her</strong>, things were looking well for<br />

Audley Dale.<br />

" I was quite right to wait," he thought,<br />

''till my fat<strong>her</strong> had had time to recover<br />

himself. I dare say Mrs. Thornton was<br />

right. The cook and the ot<strong>her</strong> disagreeables<br />

at Tring were too much for his temper. He<br />

has come right just as she said he would if<br />

left to himself"<br />

Then he fell into a train <strong>of</strong> uneasy thought<br />

respecting Mrs. Thornton. What had hap-<br />

pened to <strong>her</strong> ; that friendly, good-natured<br />

creature, with whom he had been on such<br />

terms <strong>of</strong> intimacy ? He was sorry for <strong>her</strong>,<br />

much as he might have been if she had<br />

been anot<strong>her</strong> man. His liking for <strong>her</strong> was<br />

nearly <strong>of</strong> the same sort. What could have<br />

happened to <strong>her</strong> on that day that he ap-<br />

pointed to meet <strong>her</strong> at the Fort ? Surely

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