. Harper's weekly. ion, trying, neverthe-less, to look as though she accepted it rather as ;>pleasing fact in their domestic history than as im-plying any new phase of feeling. So very—»t:ry blest! continued Miss Serocold. Sin h a sudden wave of joy ! Blest! Wave! said Polly. My dear aunt Can not realize the pleasing pain! said herfriend, sentimentally. No more can I. Thatheshould have snatched the moment— ?The last— murmured Polly. When we had not set eyes on each other these Polly looked at her—she was not ie-iiiiLckwh no delu,ion now. Mi-s lln ; pa-,the pressure ol her ,
. Harper's weekly. ion, trying, neverthe-less, to look as though she accepted it rather as ;>pleasing fact in their domestic history than as im-plying any new phase of feeling. So very—»t:ry blest! continued Miss Serocold. Sin h a sudden wave of joy ! Blest! Wave! said Polly. My dear aunt Can not realize the pleasing pain! said herfriend, sentimentally. No more can I. Thatheshould have snatched the moment— ?The last— murmured Polly. When we had not set eyes on each other these Polly looked at her—she was not ie-iiiiLckwh no delu,ion now. Mi-s lln ; pa-,the pressure ol her , hand wiih wh. young lady, presently, lias your 1his wooing? Surely to--fay was not Serocold, with a becoming Mush, with Pulsatilla, and ended in—in—;/ like to have called, of course: but he is the most thoughtful, the most considerate— He knew, by some means, that you were not in good spirits, and feared that the sight of othershappiiie-s. might only increase your melancholy. But, this morning—I. r the .-lecpy t< ? tieMr. HaggeiPrivateer. Tower Link-, whecoach was u, depart lor llarwic CHAPTER VIII. of that eventful day Not yet was thecomplete. Polly-my-Lamb sat before the in deep meditation, not unmingletreproach, as she remembered how frethopes purely selfish had been permittedthemselves with the great end and puilife. Strive as she might, however, sli ?t of tin- object -he had in ^i this character aloue that s ng laid down this d. 1 promised her hand uld he presumed to A hard-heartedness, .ction so guardedly,wealth to him whoer. To such a man Polly had exactly reached this sntitfiittory con-tusion, when she was interrupted by the entranceif Stephen, who announced Sir .lames Polhill, and,vithont further ceremony, ushered in that excel- till calmly confident, hut comporting himself withnorc real humility than on former occasions. Are you prepared, my dear young lady, saidm* ..lames, taking Pollys hand with a meaning anile, for tidi
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