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CORNHILL MAGAZINE.

MAY, 1876.

CONTENTS.

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THE ATONEMENT OF LEAM DUNDAS. (With an Illustration) 513

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THE HAND OF ETHELBERTA. (With an Illustration)

CHAPTER XLVII.-Knollsea.—The Road thence.-Lychworth.

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XLVIII.-Lychworth (continued).—The Anglebury Highway.
XLIX.-Lychworth and its Precincts.-Melchester.
L.-Anglebury.-Lychworth.-Sandbourne.

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"YOU DON'T REFUSE TO TAKE HER FOR A WEEK OR TWO?" ASKED EMMANUEL INNOCENTLY.

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CORNHILL MAGAZINE.

MAY, 1876.

The Atonement of Leam Dundas.

BOOK II.

CHAPTER XVII.

UNWORTHY.

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HE storm had passed with the night, and the day was bright and joyful; almost hard in its brightness and cruel in its joy; for while the sun was shining overhead and the air was musical with the hum of insects and the song of birds, the flowers were broken, the tender plants destroyed, the uncut corn was laid as if a troop of horse had trampled down the crops, and the woods, like the gardens and the fields, were wrecked and spoiled. But of all the mourners sighing between earth and sky nature is the one that

never repents; and the sun shines out over the saddest ruin as it shines out over the richest growth, as careless of the one as of the other.

Edgar came down from the Hill in the sunshine, handsome, strong VOL. XXXIII. NO. 197.

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