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60 OUT OF HER SPHERE.<br />

priety and delicacy was wounded by the<br />

necessity <strong>of</strong> such utterance ; but Audley<br />

was still in the dark. Mrs. Thornton had<br />

not returned to <strong>her</strong> home—that he had<br />

ascertained ; and Mr. Thornton was still<br />

seriously ill, but he had been too short a<br />

time in barracks, and seen too little, since<br />

his return to them, <strong>of</strong> his brot<strong>her</strong> <strong>of</strong>ficers,<br />

to learn how <strong>her</strong> continued disappearance<br />

was likely to affect him.<br />

" I do n't understand," he began ; " will<br />

you have the goodness to explain V<br />

Mrs. Eushington looked aghast. " Ex-<br />

planations are impossible !" she said, and<br />

rose, as if furt<strong>her</strong> continuance in the same<br />

air with such an evil-doer was not to be<br />

endured. Audley rose too.<br />

" You must not go yet, Mrs. Rushington.<br />

This is much too serious a matter for me<br />

to consent to have it passed over like this.<br />

However painful you may find it, I must<br />

beg <strong>of</strong> you to tell me a little more."

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