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63 HIS GRACE. CHAPTER VI. NORA SCORES A SUCCESS. NOTWITHSTANDING Hurstbourne’s kindly entreaties, I set my face south on the following day without having exterminated a single grouse. I was eager—perhaps too eager—to remove my sister from the neighborhood of Mr. Burgess, and I wanted to lose no time in impart- ing to her what I hoped she would regard as good news. From subsequent avowals which I had received from her Iam led to believe that she did so regard it; but at the time she disappointed me a good deal by raising a cloud of difficulties; so that quite a lengthy corre- spondence took place between us before the last of her scruples was overcome. It is true that both she and I had to reckon with Lady Deverell, who was strongly, not to say bitterly, opposed to our scheme, and who wrote to me upon the subject in very forcible terms. “T do not expect gratitude,” ‘she declared, in one of her epistles ; “I do not expect my personal wishes to have any weight with one whom I have done my best to befriend; but I do expect that young people who have been brought up as you and Nora have been should have some slight sense of reason and propriety. To accept hospitality from me is one thing; to accept Eomichoo “S m