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HIS GRACE. 186 I humbly submitted that winged cats are vara avis, and that if Lady Deverell belonged to that species, she might manage to achieve higher social flights than it had hitherto been worth her while to attempt. ‘“ You see,” I remarked, “she is now in charge of an ambitious niece who will probably find means of admittance into the - best houses. Besides, Nora is under obligations to her which can’t be forgotten or set aside. I am sure you will admit that as readily as you will admit that one isn’t always free to consult one’s personal inclinations.” Lady Charles was too good-natured or, it may be, too indifferent to quarrel with us; but Hurstbourne, on being informed of the arrangement which had been made with my sanction, astonished me by the vehe- mence of his protestations against it. “T tell you frankly, Martyn,” said he, “that I call it deuced unfriendly. If your sister doesn’t care to come and stay with us, well and good: that is a question for her to decide according to her taste, and I wouldn’t for the world urge her to enter this pandemonium against her wish. But, since it seems that she does want to see what a London season is like, I really think she might have established herself somewhere else than in the enemy’s Camp.” “Why will you persist in calling it the enemy’s camp?” Iasked. ‘ Whatisthe use of regarding people as enemies who haven’t injured you and who, as far as I am aware, have no intention of injuring you? Lady Deverell is upon visiting terms with your mother, you know.” Indeed I had ascertained that a sort of ill-tempered treaty of peace had been concluded between these two ladies and that they shook hands when they met, Eomicboo a) cS (E(0) m =>