"Fly to the rescue of Madame de Cintre!" "To her rescue ?" "Pounce down, seize her in your talons, and carry her off.

Marry her yourself." Newman, for some moments, answered nothing; but presently, "I should suppose she had heard enough of marrying," he said.

"The kindest way to treat her would be to admire her, and yet never to speak of it.

But that sort of thing is infamous," he added; "it makes me feel savage to hear of it." He heard of it, however, more than once afterward.

Mrs.Tristram again saw Madame de Cintre, and again found her looking very sad.