Witch Hazel; or, The Secret of the Locket — page 150: what you’re looking at

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and so is his grace, and it is the desire of my heart to gee you well settled in life before I leave it.” But Lord Nelson’s reply was always: “Wait; Iam not quite ready. Helena is very sweet eae pas akg I admit; but something holds me back.”’ “Tt is only your own diffidence, Nelson. . ‘Faint heart never won fair lady,’ you know,” her grace would retort playfully, and then let the matter rest for a time. A day or two after their arrival at Brighton the duchess called to take Mrs. Stewart and Helena for a drive—‘‘to show them the lions of the place,” she said. Lord Nelson accompanied them, and as he as- sisted Helena to enter the carriage, she was 80 bright and handsome, and greeted him so charmingly, he told himself that he believed he could do no better than to profit by his grandmother’s advice, after all. During their drive they suddenly came face to face with a party of three, a gentleman and two ladies, when the duchess started, an exclamation of surprise and pleasure escaped her, and she greeted the occu- pants of the other carriage with evidences of delight such a8 she seldom manifested in the presence of any one. “What a beautiful girl!’ said Mrs, Stewart, as her Ais rested upon the face of the younger of the two adies. ae “Yes, Marie Earlescourt is a lovely girl, and her. mother is alovelier woman. Did you notice her?’ asked the duchess, her fair old face all aglow from the pleasure of the meeting. “No ‘ ~ patie hee uti bees 5 engrossed by the young lady,” replie 8. Stewart. : “Tam sorry; but you will soon have avUpportanity