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"If two lives join, there is oft a scar, / They are one and one, with a shadowy third, / One near one is too far. " / R. BROWNING.
MRS. VILLIERS of Dutton Park was a marked personage in Dutton; partly from her husband's wealth and position, partly from her own personal charms. Her actions were watched and commented on to any extent. Where she drove, how she dressed, what she said, thought, and did, became matters for daily chit-chat. Above all, whom she called upon, whom she chose to welcome, and whom she treated with coldness, were questions which stirred the neighbourhood-more especially that part of the neighbourhood which belonged to the congregation of St. John's.