silently along over the fell. The reader will surmise from this that she was already half inclined to give way, and to join her lot to that of her cousin George. Alas, yes! The reader will be right in his surmise. And yet it was not her wordnetdesire for the man that prompted her to run so terrible a risk. Had it been so, I think that it would be easier to forgive her. She was beginning to think that wordnetdesire,--the wordnetdesire of which she had once thought so much,--did not matter. Of what use was it, and to what had it led? What had wordnetdesire done for her friend Glencora? What had wordnetdesire done for her? Had she not loved John Grey, and had she not felt that with all her wordnetdesire life with him would have been distasteful to her? It would have been impossible for her to marry a man whom personally she disliked; but she liked her cousin George,--well enough, as she said to herself almost indifferently. Upon the whole it was a grievous task to her in these days,--this having to do something with her life. Was it not all vain and futile? As for that girl's wordnetdesire of the of wordnetdesire which she had once