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THE DINNER-PARTY.
Miss Mattock ventured on a prediction in her mind: She was sure the letter would go.

And there was not much to signify if it did.

But the curious fatality that a person of such a native uprightness as Mrs.Adister should have been drawn in among Irishmen, set her thoughts upon the composer of the letter, and upon the contrast of his ingenuous look with the powerful cast of his head.

She fancied a certain danger about him; of what kind she could not quite distinguish, for it had no reference to woman's heart, and he was too young to be much of a politician, and he was not in the priesthood.