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"You need think no such thing," said she drily "It is simply that I, in common with the rest of the world, feel that there are certain things which had better be done by certain people than by others"

"As you like, as you like," said Wildeve laconically "It is not worth arguing about Well, I think Iin charge of the lad and thescarcely so courteous as his greeting But Mrs Yeobright knew hihly by this tiood or bad

When Wildeve was gone Mrs Yeobright stood and considered ould be the best course to adopt with regard to the guineas, which she had not liked to entrust to Wildeve It was hardly credible that Thomasin had told him to ask for them, when the necessity for the money at his hands At the saht be unable to come to Blooms-End for another week at least To take or send the money to her at the inn would be impolite, since Wildeve would pretty surely be present, or would discover the transaction; and if, as her aunt suspected, he treated her less kindly than she deserved to be treated, he entle hands But on this particular evening Thoht be conveyed to her there without the knowledge of her husband Upon the whole the opportunity orth taking advantage of

Her son, too, was there, and was now married There could be no more proper moment to render him his share of the money than the present And the chance that would be afforded her, by sending hi him ill-will, cheered the sad mother's heart

She went upstairs and took from a locked drawer a little box, out of which she poured a hoard of broad unworn guineas that had lain there many a year There were a hundred in all, and she dividedthe up these in sarden and called to Christian Cantle, as loitering about in hope of a supper which was not really owed hio to Mistover, and on no account to deliver them into any one's hands save her son's and Thoht she dees contained, that he ht be fully impressed with their ireatest carefulness, and set out on his way