he added. 

She shook her head. " I know what is before me. ?  " 
She suddenly paused. He stood embarrassed, not knowing 
whether to speak or be silent. He so wished to say to her 
that the bailiff had told him of her , but it gave him 
fluch pmn to allude to it, and the thought of Emanuel was 
HO repugnant to bin), that his lips were sealed. 

" It seems to me," he began, at last, " that jou hardly share 
that entire  to the will of God which I so wordnetfear 
in your fether." 

This was not what he meant to say, and evidently did not 
please her, for she replied, with a kind of remonstrance in her 
tone, " God has not endowed me with a submissive spu'it." 

Her words startled him out of his usual self-control, and he 
esolaimed, " Oh that you had never loft your home " 

The words were wrung from his , and the tone in 
which they were uttered showed that they were so. Hulda 
looked up at him in . He could not bear her eyes 
thus fixed upon him, and he stammered, while the blood 
rushed to. his forehead, " Forgive my presumption !" 

But now Hulda blushed in conflision, for just