Beyond The Rocks

otel in the Rue de Rivoli, Moni

, May

rmenonville-although Jack particularly wanted to go to the Madrid-and when we got there we saw at once why! There was a most beautiful woman dining there with a party, and Hector never took his eyes off her the whole of dinner, Jack says-I had my back that way-and he got rid of us as soon as he could and went and joined them. Very young she looked, but I suppose married, from her pearls and clothes-American probably, as she was perhaps too well dressed for one of us; but quite a lady and awfully pretty. Hector was so snappish about it, and would not tell her name, that it makes me sure he is very much in love with her, and Ja

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er when she read it over coffee at her

er where she got this strain from-her father's f

at night. And if she had looked up in the tall mirror opposite, she would hav

w, too, and had often thrown him with!-his delight in big-game shooting in alarming and impossible countries-and, above all, his absolute indifference to Morella Winmarleigh, the only woman who really and truly in her heart of hearts Lady Bracondale thought worthy of him, although she would have accepted several other girls as choosing the lesser evil to bachelorhood. Bu

penly defied his mother-he simply made love to her whenever the

She sits there beaming on him exactly like an exceedingly proud and fond cat with new kittens. He treats her as if she were a young

ther had often made the women w

epistle, in spite of that touch of vulgarity which she had deplored, had held out some grains of comfort. She had been getting really anxious over this affai

ing that disturbing story of the diamond chain, she had been on thorn

everal members of this nation herself in England, and were they not always very discreet, with well-balanced heads! So altogether the puckered frown soon left her smooth brow, and she was able to resume the knitting of a tie she was doing for her son, with a spirit more or less at rest, though she sighed