There could not, he decided, possibly be two girls so much alike. Ann Veronica, after a last survey of the dinner appointments, followed him, rustling, came to his side by the high brass fender, and touched two or three ornaments on the mantel above the cheerful fireplace. “Anna,” she moaned, “I am a jealous, ungrateful woman. Mr. "I've waited supper, you perceive. But now confound it! how can you prevent it? I will kiss you. But I vowed that Ruth should never suffer the way I did—and do. “Not a bit of it. "This young fool is come to restore the article—whatever it may be—which Lady Trafford was anxious to conceal, and which his companion purloined. ” “I should have his head on a platter!” Sebastian exclaimed dramatically. And a right set-to there were betwixt him and Mr Jarvis, I can tell you. Winifred pointed to the door. ‘She ought to be. “It’s unforgivable of me to call, Miss Stanley,” he said, shaking hands in a peculiar, high, fashionable manner; “but you know you said we might be friends.