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fi1S GRACE. 61 want to know what your intentions are; so that I may make our arrangements fit in with them.” He looked pained, but disclaimed any intention of jibbing—which was rather a disappointment tome. For reasons the cogency of which he said he had no doubt that I should appreciate, he could not propose an im- mediate celebration of his second nuptials. Advent would be upon us before Nora could decently lay aside her crape, Christmas was always a busy and anxious season, Lent would fall early next year ; upon the whole, he did not see how he could reconcile it with his duties and obligations to be married until after Easter. He added that he had talked the matter over with dear Nora, who was quite of one mind with him about it. Then he brought forward the proposition to which I alluded just now. It was that Nora should be de- spatched to acertain Home by the sea-side that he knew of, where she would be well cared for by the Sisters and would be provided with work, in consideration of which .no charge would be made for her keep. He said he was convinced that such a period of calm seclusion and well-doing would contribute to her spiritual as well as her temporal advantage. I thanked him very much and undertook to give his plan full consideration. I also promised (for indeed I was extremely anxious to get rid of him), that I would consider the earnest and affectionate counsels which he felt it right to urge upon me with regard to my per- sonal inheritance. Ought I to profit by what he feared he must call an unjust display of maternal tenderness ? Ought I to consult my own ease rather than that of 4 helpless girl whose natural protector I was? These were questions, which, he said, he would leave to be GOmiGc boo CSG