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Out of her sphere - University Library

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OUT OF HER SPHERE.<br />

to give me a hand after all. I suppose the<br />

truth is, she's found out I'd made it all<br />

right with Milly before I came to <strong>her</strong>.<br />

Hang it all ! can't she find a word T<br />

Mrs. Hushington did find a word at last.<br />

" I am very sorry," she began, much in<br />

the same tone in which, now and then,<br />

she lectured Milly or Beatey, when they<br />

had been guilty <strong>of</strong> any serious transgres-<br />

sion against les hienseances, *' that circum-<br />

stances at present render it impossible for<br />

me to accept, on my daughter's behalf, the<br />

honour you <strong>of</strong>ier <strong>her</strong>. Had things been<br />

ot<strong>her</strong>wise, I will not say but that it would<br />

have given me much pleasure to have ac-<br />

quainted <strong>her</strong> with the interest you have<br />

manifested, but as they are, t<strong>her</strong>e is but<br />

one course open to me—I think, iipon re-<br />

flection, even you must see that."<br />

" I do n't know what I am to see," said<br />

Audley, feeling petrified, as each word fell<br />

like an ice-bolt upon him, " unless it is that

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