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"You are speaking of Alice.' "Of course I am speaking of Alice." ""T would wager my head that she has read twice more in the last two years than Georgiana Wanless. But, mother, I am not disposed to discuss either the one young lady or the other. I am not going to Brook Park to look for a wife; and if ever I take one, it will be simply because I like her best, and not be- cause I wish to use her as a rung of a ladder by which to climb into the world." That all this and just this would be said to her Mrs. Ros- siter had been aware; but still she had thought that a word in season might have its effect. And it did have its effect. John Rossiter, as he was driven over to It's the CLEANEST, SIMPLEST, and BEST HOME DYE, one can buy--Why you don't even have to know what KIND of Cloth your Goods are made of.--So Mistakes are Impossible. 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He had seen that Alice's cheek had been smirched by the greasy crumbs from her little brother's mouth; he had seen that the tips of her fingers showed the mark of the needle; he had seen fragments of thread about her dress, and the mud even from the children's boots on her skirts. He had seen this, and had been aware that Georgiana Wanless was free from all such soil on her out- ward raiment. He liked the per- fect grace of unspotted feminine apparel, and he had, too, thought of the hours in which Alice might probably be employed amidst the multifarious needs of a nursery, and had argued to himself much as his mother had argued. It was good and homely--worthy of a thousand praises; but was it exactly that which he wanted in a wife? He had repudiated with scorn his mo- ther's cold, worldly doctrine; but yet he had felt that it would be a pleasant thing to have it known in London that his wife was the daughter of Sir Walter Wanless. It was true that she was wonderfully handsome--a complexion perfectly clear, a nose cut as out of marble, a mouth delicate as of a goddess, with a waist quite to match it. Her shoulders were white as alabaster. Her dress was at all times perfect. Her fingers were without mark or stain. There might perhaps be a want of expression; but faces so symmetrical are seldom expres- sive. And then, to crown all this, he was justified in believing that she was attached to himself. Al- most as much had been said to him by Lady Wanless herselfi--a word which would amount to as much, coupled as it was with an immedi- ate invitation to Brook Park. Of this he had given no hint to any hu- man being; but he had been at Brook Park once before, and some rumor of something between him and Miss Georgiana Wanless had reached the people at Beetham -- had reached, as we have seen, not only Mrs. Rossiter, but also Alice Dugdale. There had been moments up in London when his mind had veered round toward Miss Wanless. But there was one little trifle which op- posed the action of his mind, and that was his heart. He had begun to think that it might be his duty to marry Georgiana ;--but the more (he thought so the more clearly ; would the figure of Alice stand be- 7 fore him, so that no veil could be thrown over it. When he tried to summon to his imagination the sta- tuesque beauty of the one girl, the bright eyes of the other would look 'at him, and the words from her , Speaking mouth would be in his ; ears. He had once kissed Alice, | immediately on his return, in the | presence of her father, and the | memory of the halcyon moment was When he always present to him. eq | thought most of Miss Wanless he f| did not think much of her kisses. 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Nothing could be more simple than her natural lan- guage or her feelings. But she had chosen to show him that she was ready to run into little faults which might offend him. The reverse of her ideas came upon him. She had said, as it were,--"See how little anxious I must be to dress myself in your mirror when I put myself in the same category with my poor step-mother." Then he said to him- self that he could see her as he was fain to see her in her own mirror, and he loved her the better because she had dared to run the risk of of- fending him. at Brook Park he knew that it was his destiny to marry either the one girl or the other; and he was afraid of himself,--that before he left the house he might be engaged to the one he did not love. There was a moment in which he thought he would turn round and go back. "Major Rossiter," Lady Wanless had said, "you know how glad we are to see you here. There is no young man of the day of whom Sir Walter thinks so much." Then he had thanked her. "But--may I say a word in warning "' "Certainly."' "And I may trust to your hon- or?' "T think so, Lady Wanless." "Do not be much with that sweet darling of mine--unless indeed--" And then she had stopped. Major Rossiter, though he was a major and had served some years in India, blushed up to his eyebrows and was unable to answer a word. But he knew that Georgiana Wanless had been offered to him, and was en- titled to believe that the young lady was prone to fall in love with him. Lady Wanless, had she been asked for an excuse for such con- duct, would have said that the young men of the present day were stow in managing their own af- fairs, unless a little help were giv- en to them. When the Major was almost im- mediately invited to return to Brook Park, he could not but feel that, if he were so to make his choice, he would be received there asa son-in-law. It may be that un- less he intended so to be received, he should not have gone. This ho felt as he was driven across the park, and was almost minded to return to Beetham. _-------- CHAPTER IIT. Sir Walter Wanless was one of those great men who never do any- thing great, but achieve their great- ness partly by their tailors, partly by a breadth of eyebrow and car- riage of the body--what we may call deportment--and partly by the outside gifts of fortune. Taking his career altogether we must say that he had been unfortunate. He was a baronet with a fine house and park --and with an income hardly suf- ficient for the place. He had con- tested the county four times on old Whig principles, and had once been in Parliament for two years. There he had never opened his mouth; but in his struggle to get there had greatly embarrassed his finances. His tailor had been well chosen, and had always turned him out as the best dressed old baronet in England. His eyebrow was all his own, and certainly commanded re- spect from those with whom eye- brows are efficacious. He never read; he eschewed farming, by which he had lost money in early life; and had, so to say, no visible occupation at all. But he was Sir Walter Wanless, and what with his tailor and what with his eyebrow he did command a great deal of re- spect in the country round Beeth- am. He had, too, certain good gifts for which people were thank- ful as coming from so great a man. He paid his bills, he went to church, he was well behaved, and still maintained certain old-fash- ioned family charities, though mon- ey was not plentiful with him. He had two sons and five daugh- ters, The sons were in the army, and were beyond his control. The daughters were all at home, and were altogether under the control of their mother. Indeed, everything at Brook Park was under the con- trol of Lady Wanless--though no man alive gave himself airs more autocratic than Sir Walter. It was on her shoulders that fell the burden of the five daughters, and of maintaining with straitened means the hospitality of Brook Park on their, behoof. <A hard- worked woman was Lady Wanless, in doing her duty--with imperfect lights no doubt, but to the best of her abilities with such lights as she possessed. She was somewhat fine in her dress, not for any comfort that might accrue to herself, but from a feeling that an alliance with the Wanlesses would not be valued by the proper sort of young man unless she were grand herself. The girls were beautifully dressed; but oh, with such care and economy and daily labor among them, her- self, and the two lady's-maids up- stairs! The father, what with his election and his farming and _a period of costly _ liv- ing early in his life, had not done well for the family. That she knew, and neyer rebuked him. But it was As he was driven up to the house S Just what you need after a hard day's work--A Refresh. ing cup of LiPTON'S TEA | Goes farthest for the money for her to set matters right, which she could only do by getting hus- bands for the daughters. That this might be achieved the Wanless prestige must be maintained; and with crippled means it is so hard to maintain a family prestige! <A poor duke may do it, or perhaps an earl; but a baronet is not high enough to give bad wines to his guests without serious detriment to his unmarried daughters. A beginning to what might be hoped to be a long line of successes had already been made. The eld- est girl, Sophia, was engaged. Lady Wanless did not look very high, knowing that failure in such opera- tions would bring with it such un- utterable misfortune. - Sophia was engaged to the eldest son of a neighboring squire--whose property indeed was not large, nor was the squire likely to die very soon; but there were the means of present living and a future rental of £4,000 a year. Young Mr. Cob- ble was now staying at the house, and had been duly accepted by Sir Walter himself. The youngest girl, who was only nineteen, had fallen in love with a young clergyman in the neighborhood. That would not do at all, and the young clergyman was not allowed within the Park. Georgiana was the beauty; and for her, if for any, some great destiny might have been hoped. But it was her turn, a matter of which Lady Wanless thought a great deal, and the Major was too good to be al- lowed to escape. Georgiana, in her cold, impassive way, seemed to dike the Major, and therefore Lady Wanless paired them off instantly with that decision which was neces- sary amidst the labors of her life. She had no scruples in what she did, feeling sure that her daugh- ters would make honest, good wives, and that the blood of the Wanlesses was a dowry in itself. (To be continued.) a 5 THE LATE ROBERT BARR. The Canadian author, who died in Surrey, England, recently. AUSTRALIA'S WHEAT LANDS. Millions of Acres Have Been Added to the Area. During the last few years, an area totalling millions of acres has been added to the previously recog- nized wheat-growing lands of South Australia. Some of this has already been served by railways and profitably settled, but there remains a great deal more to be accomplished in that direction. 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