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Lady Constantine flung down the old-fashioned lacework, whose beauties

she had been pointing out to Swithin, and exclaimed, 'Who can it be?

Not Louis, surely?' They listened An arrival was such a phenomenon at this unfrequented

mansion, and particularly a late arrival, that no servant was on the

alert to respond to the call; and the visitor rang again,and shutting of a passage-door

from the kitchen quarter then reached their ears, and Viviette went into

the corridor to hearken more attentively In a few minutes she returned

to the wardrobe-room in which she had left Swithin

'Yes; it is ht his voice He has no doubt come back from Paris to stay This is

a rather vexatious, indolent way he has, never to write to prepare o away,' said Swithin

By this time, however, her brother had been shown into the house, and the

footsteps of the page were audible, co in search of Lady Constantine

'If you ait there aSt Cleeve into a