Besides, see what that Miss Bax said. You may
say what you like, but ehe is Mrs. Aiken's first
cousin, after alll "

" No doubt she's right, dear 1 And no doubt the
picture's right" Her ladyship retires with the
dignity of one withdrawing henelf from mundane
matters, Olyropaswards. But one can never touch
pitch and not he defiled. Some has dung to her,
for she adds, absently, " I wonder where Thyrza
Freateign picks up all these odd people." In the
end she forsakes specuJation to say, " Of coarse
have the carriage, darling; I don't see that any
harm can come of it Only don't get mixed
up."

" / won't get mixed up," said Miss TJpwell con-
fidently, and kisses her mother on both sides, for
granting the carriage to go on such a crazy quest
She for the tenth of a second associates the two
kisses with the beautiful pair of greys that draw it
She loves horses very much, and gives them too
much sugar. If any tongue's tip is ready with a
denial of the possibility of such an impression as
this, it only shows that the tongue's owner has not

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liad a similar experience. The kisses were cash dowQ
for each horse — does that male it clearer ?



Anjhow, the greys' eight hoofs rang sweetlj next
day on a frost; road, going south-westwards, aa
soon as they left the traffic — that road-spoiler — far
enough behind. The sun had taken a mean ad-
vantage of its being such a glorious day, to get at
nice clean frozen comers and make a nasty mess.
