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Al with so well as you do, and she told me yesterday how she longed to
get to you." "It is very good in her. I have sometimes feared she might
think we had dealt unfairly by her if she did not know how very late in
the business we suspected that our impostors were the same," said
Ermine. "It is not her way to blame any one but herself," said Alick,
"and, in fact, our showing her the woodcut deception was a preparation
for the rest of it. But I have said very little to her about all that
matter. She required to be led away rather than back to it. Brooding
over it is fatal work, and yet her spirits are too much weakened and
shattered to bear over-amusement. That is the reason that I thought you
would be so very welcome to-morrow. She has seen no one yet but Lady
Temple, and shrinks from the very idea." "I do not see why I should not
manage it very well," said Ermine, cheerfully, "if Miss Curtis will let
me know in time whether she is equal to seeing me. You know I can walk
into the house now." Alick thanked her earnestly. His listless manner
was greatly enlivened by his anxiety, and Colonel Keith was obliged to
own that marriage would be a good thing for him; but such a marriage! If
from sheer indolence he should leave the government to his wife,
then--Colin could only s