“I hope you are well, mother?” the young man said, kissing her tenderly, and as the light fell on her face one saw features still handsome in spite of the silver hair that set off the blackness of her large eyes. “Yes, I am well. And you, my dear son?
Norman de Vere was by no means unacquainted with the passionate and jealous temper of his wife, having experienced its evil effects many times during the two years in which he had been her husband. But her present outburst was so unexpected and so reasonless that he almost recoiled in
THE following morning Arthur was in Mr. Brading's room, which adjoined the accountant's department, when one of the messengers brought a card and handed it to Mr. Brading. A frown contracted the gentleman's face as his eye fell upon the name it bore. "
ARTHUR was received by his friend and Mrs. Brading most kindly and courteously, without any tinge of either patronage or condescension, which some words of his elder sister had almost led him to expect. He found that Mr. Brading, if he was not to be reckoned among the county families,
"A LETTER for me!" exclaimed Arthur, as he took his seat at the breakfast-table next morning and saw the letter beside his plate. But Molly came in the next minute, before the letter could be opened. "Arthur, I have thought of a plan to get over the