Now I am in comparative indigence, and branded as an impostor in my native city.

If none recognized and received us in our own home, how could I expect him to do so?
And to have been spurned as a mere pretender by him would have broken my heart at once." Eugenia was greatly moved by this allusion to her former lover and affianced husband.

The subject was one upon which she had never allowed herself to thinks except compulsorily, and but for a few moments at a time.

She could not bear it.

After a silence of some moments, Mrs.Gaston said-- "I have not met with or heard of Mr.Perkins for some years.