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the Windsor or Fifth A^venue, was a thoroughly 

 comfortable hotel, and one in fact which has 

 ever been very popular with English people. 

 He dined at Delmonico's solus. He had a ter- 

 rible fit of the blues on, and could not shake 

 them off anyhow. 



For the first time in his life he disliked 

 Acton; he could not help feeling frightfully 

 jealous of him, and when that individual 

 turned up, felt but little inclination to hold 

 any conversation with his successful rival, as 

 he imagined him to be. One glance at Acton's 

 face, however, sufficed to tell him that some- 

 thing very serious had happened. Poor Acton ! 

 he was indeed not to be envied, and when he 

 told Reginald how, emboldened by the evident 

 pleasure Lina had taken in his society, he 

 ventured after dinner on the verandah to tell 

 his love, and how she kindly but firmly, 

 though evidently deeply distressed thereat, 

 had said him nay, then indeed did Regi- 

 nald feel angry with himself for having for 

 one instant allowed his jealousy to over- 



