'Ah, then he will never forgive you!' This idea, sharply expressed by Morris's handsome lips, renewed for a moment to the poor girl's temporarily pacified conscience all its dreadful vividness.' Oh, you must love me very much!' she cried.

'There is no doubt of that, my dear,' her lover rejoined.' You don't like that word' disinherited,' , he added, in a moment.

'It isn't the money; it is that he should - that he should feel so.'

'I suppose it seems to you a kind of curse?' said Morris.' It must be very dismal. But don't you think,' he went on, presently,' that if you were to try to be very clever, and to set rightly about it, you might in the end conjure it away? Don't you think,' he continued further, in a tone of sympathetic speculation,' that a really clever woman, in your place, might bring him round at last? Don't you think - '

Here, suddenly, Morris was interrupted; these ingenious inquiries had not reached Catherine's ears. The terrible word disinheritance, with all its impressive moral reprobation, was still ringing there - seemed, indeed, togather force as it lingered. The mortal chill of her situation struck more deeply into her childlike heart, and she was overwhelmed by a feeling of loneliness and danger. But her refuge was there, close to her, and she put out her hands to grasp it. 'Ah, Morris,' she said, with a shudder,' I will marry you as soon as you please!' and she surrendered herself, leaning her head on his shoulder.

'My dear good girl!' he exclaimed, looking down at his prize. And then he looked up again, rather vaguely, with parted lips and lifted eyebrows.