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young man, the market- square with its lights and crowd, the houses beyond, and the world at large, began moving round as before, countermoving in the revolving mirrors on her right hand, she being as it were the fixed point in an undulating, dazzling, lurid universe, in which loomed forward most prominently of all the form of her late interlocutor, Each time that she approached the half of her orbit that lay nearest him they gazed at each other with smiles, and with that unmistakable expression which means so little at the moment, yet so often leads up to paasion, heartache, union, disunion, devotion, overpopulation, dradgery, content, resignation, despair.

When the horses slowed anew he stepped to her side snd proposed another heat. “ Hang the expense for once,” be said. “I’ll pay !”

She laughed till the tears came.

“Why de you laugh, dear ?” said he.

“Because—you are so genteel that you must have plenty of money, and only aay that for fun!” she returned,

“Ha-ha !” laughed the young man in unison, and gallantly producing his money she was enabled to whirl on again.

As he stood amiling there in the motley crowd, with his pipe in his hand, and olad in the rough pea-jacket and wide-awake that he had put on for his stroll, who would have supposed him to be Charles Bradford Raye, Esquire, stuff-gownsman, educated at Wintoncaster, called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn, now going the Western Circuit, merely detained in Melchester by a small arbitration after his brethren had moved on to the next county-town ?