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78 HIS GRACE. sure, we already have the one, and it seems we haven’t a superfluity of the other.” Hurstbourne had not mentioned his losses at New- market to me; but that he had had other heavy ex- penses, unavoidable or otherwise, I had been made un- pleasantly aware that same morning, and this foolish lady’s casual revelations disquieted me not a little. He might, I presumed, count upon ridding himself of his difficulties by espousing some rich woman; but it seemed a pity that he should be driven to have recourse to such expedients. Meanwhile, it was evident that the thought of his embarrassments did not weigh heavily upon him. He approached us after a time, grinning from ear to ear and swearing that he wasn’t going to stand this kind of thing any longer. “ Just you wait a bit,” said he, turning round, as he took off his skates, to shake his finger at Nora, who was executing graceful pirouettes behind him. “I owe you one for holding me up to public obloquy and ridi- cule, and the very first day that we get a thaw I'll re- member to pay my debts. I never said I could skate; but you have committed yourself to the assertion that you can ride, and if you don’t go straight, you shall hear of it, I promise you!” “Don’t lose your temper just when you are begin- ning to get on so well,” returned Nora composedly. “If you ride as recklessly as you skate, you will be all right, because, you know, you haven’t a single horse in your stables who really requires to be ridden.” They wrangled all the way home, and only made friends upon the doorstep, when Hurstbourne re- marked, with a sigh, that he supposed we might as well Eomichoo <S (E(0) m