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~ ° Ss ~~ Pi 5 . J p ent \" ~ ; we _ { . Vv ‘ : \ ° - aoe 6 RRART’S BITTERNESS. ‘“No, not engaged; but, for some time at least, he will not think of loving any one; he loves, and has lost.” ‘Some foreign person?” said Mrs. Ainslie, eagerly. Dead?” | ‘‘TDead—to him,” added Violet, with a sob under her breath. ‘I only tell you, aunt, so that you will drop him out of your thoughts for Anna, and not stand in the way of an honest love. Isee that Captain Gore likes her, and he is able to support her comfortably.” ‘Well, Anna shall have her choice in society before she isentangled with Captain Gore, or any untitled man. I shall send her home to Lindenwood to-morrow or Saturday. _ Ithink Anna is very attractive. Don’t you? Sucha color! Such health! Such a laugh! She is as I was when I was young. Well, I shall not pine over Keith, for there is the Marquis of Alwood; he is said to be the handsomest young man in England, and he will be aduke. Who knows? Anna may secure him.” In spite of her sorrow, her disgust, at such bold scheming, Violet could not forbear turning her head away to laugh. Alwood! Destined to become one of the first peers -of Eng- land! Alwood, in whose veins flowed the most ancient blood gn the three kingdoms. Alwood’s marriage plotted for ‘In_ her dressing-room! It seemed simply amusing. Little did Violet think of what her share would be in Alwood’s marriage. . _ “Anna shall go home to-morrow,” said Mrs. Ainslie, firmly. Then Violet could not help laughing aloud. CHAPTER XXXII. BESIDE THE BLACK POOL. The estates of Leigh were princely; they embraced half a county; near the Towers, together with properties acquired in other localities by purchase or marriage. Scenery, wood- land, and village, bright and dark, could be found in the wide domains of the ‘lowers. | _ ‘There was one spot that was generally eschewed, it was so dark, so desolate, so weird, souncanny, that it would seem . _ only fit for the hauntof a morbid and unbalanced mind. It ‘comicbooks.co