Give her up!—this fair woman whose beauty maddened him! No! never, never—come what might!
"I would not release you, Dora. I would not give you up, if every angel, and every fiend combined, tried to take you from me!"
CHAPTER LXXV.
"HEAVEN SAVE EARLE!"
"August at last," said Lady Linleigh; "it is the first to-day. Not long now, Doris, until the tenth."
"No; not long," was the reply.
"Everything is ready and waiting at Hyde House," continued the countess; "the whole of your trousseau is ready, and a more magnificent one was never designed."
"I am more than satisfied with it," said the young beauty, "What time will Mattie Brace be here, Lady Linleigh?"
"About noon. I shall send the carriage to the station."
"I will drive my pretty ponies," said Doris, eagerly. "I have only used them once since papa gave them to me. She will be so pleased if I meet her."