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NESTA'S ENGAGEMENT.
A word in his ear from Fenellan, touching that man Blathenoy, set the wheels of Victor's brain at work upon his defences, for a minute, on the walk Westward.

Who knew ?--who did not know! He had a torpid consciousness that he cringed to the world, with an entreaty to the great monster to hold off in ignorance; and the next instant, he had caught its miserable spies by the lurcher neck and was towering.

He dwelt on his contempt of them, to curtain the power they could stir.
'The little woman, you say, took to Dartrey ?' Fenellan, with the usual apologetic moderation of a second statement, thought 'there was the look of it.' 'Well, we must watch over her.

Dartrey!--but Dartrey's an honest fellow with women.