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"There must be means," she said setting her teeth. "I have made a false step, but I will retrieve it. I will call on the Davenants ; Esric cannot, for the girl's sake, he is so careful of her name, oppose that ; I shall see then how the land lies, and if the girl wants to keep her name untainted, there will be some means of letting her know that she is giving it away for the world to play with,' if she lets , such a man as Capt. Stewart, who isn't in love with his wife, see too much of her! I'll not forget one word you spoke to me to-day, Esric. If a crumpled roseleaf touches' Claude Verner you will 1 hurl me down from my place, make me 'bite the dust ! ' I shall not forget. It is not my way to forget— or forgive !"• Buti at luncheon she . was fair, smiling, well-bred, making herseli" agreeable, to three or, four people who were , present, among them a young adorer, who couldn't under* stand why Capt., Stewart didn't worship his lovely, wife. But had the young adorer been married only "three months to Pauline, he would have comprehended how very different the same object may appear according as you view it from one point or another. A panther, viewed from the outside of the cage, looks sleek and soft, with its velvet coat and graceful movements, but if you were inside the cage you might be unpleasantly ' reminded of other attributes, calculated to discount the panther's beauty. 1