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HIS GRACE. 105 CHAPTER IX. MISS ST. GEORGE. Nora was soon herself again. She had been men- tally as well as physically upset, and she had said things which she may possibly have regretted when her nervous system recovered its customary equilib- rium ; but she had quite made up her mind to renounce the care of Mr. Burgess and hischildren. In assuring me of her unaltered resolution she, nevertheless, took occasion to beg that I would say nothing about it for the present. “There isno hurry,” saidshe. ‘ Mr. Burgess, as you know, isn’t in a hurry, and of course my private affairs don’t concern anybody here except you and me.” “Most certainly they don’t,” I replied, with an emphasis of the futility of which I was fully aware. “Tt can’t signify a straw to Lady Charles Gascoigne whether you marry this or that person, or whether you remain a spinster; as for Hurstbourne, he is a simple, kind-hearted fellow, and I can well understand that he may have been shocked at the idea of your engaging yourself to a man of Mr. Burgess’s age; but I am afraid he will forget your existence and mine as soon as we are out of his sight, and his own affairs, you may ¢om l = \ boo cS (E( 0) im