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you take so much interest. You have refused to encourage Sir Kollo Rawlings—you see I heard something of your quarrel—but what of that? If you are not inclined to many a baronet, no one can you to do so!" "But Hal —but Hal!" "Pshaw!" cried Nurse May, breaking away from the clinging hands that detained her, "have I not told yoii that Mr Haydon cannot do anythingto harm him now?" What did she mean by now? Did she propose to invoke for him the protection of the general? Surely she would not venture on this? However, the knowledge that this inscrutable woman was Hal's friend comforted Lois; and after bathing her face and effacing as much as possible the signs of her agitation, she went to the study, and poured over Macaulay's poem till she could recite it well enough to win the plaudits of the old soldier. And now for several mornings in succession Mr liaydon came to ride with his daughter, and his companion was always Sir Rollo. Lois would fain have avoided the ordeal, but Nurse May advised her not to arouse Laurence's wrath by rebelling against him. "It is only for a little while," muitered the nurse, "only till he shows his hand more plainly. Does he think that he will never have to make requittal—never meet his punishment?" Guiding herself by the counsels of her friend, Lois meekly did her father's bidding, and rode with him and the baronet whenever he so willed it. But Sir Rollo's suit did not prosper, much to his amazement, for he had a very strong conviction of his powers of pleasing, and Laurence had flattered him, or, in other words, fooled him to the top of his bent. "Is it her excessive timidity that makes Miss Haydon so reserved?" the baronet peevishly queried. "I cannot get anything but 'yes,' or 'no,' from her, and. if I attempt to express the admiration I feel for her she looks steadily away from me, or makes her marc fidget, or tells me plainly she is thinking of something else, and did not hear what I said. 'Pon my word, it gets quite exasperating, it is really. I wouldn't mind her being a little skittish, but it's carrying it too far, you know; much too far!" "I'll speak to her," said Laurence, knitting his brows; and when Lois, who preferred to dismount unaided, would have ieaped lightly down, and run upstairs to avoid the storm she sav\ impending, he prevented it. |TO RE CONTINUED.] Winter's chili has houmT you With cough and lungs distrest; AC ACT.A N BALSAM frees you, Ami through the night <_ r ives rest,. AC ACI AN BALSAM,"best'6ll earth, For calds and weakly chi-st ; Of testimony there's 110 dearth, As thousands now attest. Barraclough's Acacian Lung Balsam, l/l

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