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A HEART’S BITTERNESS. | 103Ge50 derly and purely, and as the carriage stopped, and the footman let down the steps, Violet sprang into Lady Bur- ton’s arms. © ‘““My sweet child,” said Lady Burton, gazing fondly at the lovely roseate face, ‘‘I rejoice to see you looking so bright and well. Your husband wrote to me to come—said he thought you needed me—that youwere not very well, and wero gloomy.” } ‘“‘ He was very kind to write to you: I did not know of it. This is all a surprise to me—a delightful surprise—but you need not have believed that about my health, for I am always well.” | ‘‘Lord Leigh invited both myself and my son—I wrote you that Kenneth had returned—and Kenneth at first refused to come; but asI said I would not come with- out him, and we feared that you needed me, he came. - Where is he? He walked from the gates. Oh, here, behind the carriage. My son, come and be presented to - Lady Leigh,” Kenneth Keith stood upon the step of the landau; they were in a false position, but it was Violet’s place to speak. » Violet held out her hand, her face crimson; it was at Lady Burton she looked. “We have met before; he was in Paris when we were, and e ‘*Oh, that is delightful! I hope you liked each other.” **T had seen him before, too,” said Violet, bravely, ‘and remembered him; and Leigh asked him to meet us in Switzerland.” ‘“And we came to Dover in the same steamer,” said — Keith. ““So, you see, we are old friends,” added Violet; and Keith took his place opposite her, and she sat by his mother’s side, and so they drove up to the entrance, and so they might have sat if they had been man and wife,—and not two cruelly sundered hearts. if Lord Leigh had gone out on the terrace to wait for the landau which he had sent privately to the station, and meant to go and surprise Violet by his announcement of the arrivals. To his astonishment, she rode up with them, holding Lady Burton’s hand, smiling and happy. “See what I did for your gratification,” he whispered, as the party alighted. Lae comicbooks.co