F. U. E. E., and matters had gone too far now for her to afford to
doubt, or to receive a doubting master. Moreover, it would be
despicable to be diverted from a great purpose by a courtship like
any ordinary woman; nor must marriage settlements come to interfere
with her building and endowment of the asylum, and ultimate devotion
of her property thereunto. No, she would school herself into a
system of quiet discouragement, and reserve herself and her means as
the nucleus of the great future establishment for maintaining female
rights of labour.




CHAPTER XI



LADY TEMPLE'S TROUBLES.



"The pheasant in the falcon's claw,
He scarce will yield, to please a daw."--SCOTT.


Early in the afternoon of a warm October day, the brothers arrived at
Avomnouth, and ten minutes after both were upon the lawn at
Myrtlewood, where croquet was still in progress. Shouts of delight
greeted the Colonel, and very gracefully did Bessie Keith come to
meet him, with the frank confiding sweetness befitting his recent