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of that sort I have fancied such extensions as these." He laid the plans before her. Juliet looked, bent over them, cried out with delight, and called upon Anthony to join her. "Oh, Mr. Cathcart," she said eagerly, "before you proved yourself an exceedingly fine architect; but now you show yourself a master. To make this of the old house--why, it's far the higher art." Anthony glanced, laughing, across at Cathcart, whose face had fallen so pronouncedly that Juliet would have seen it if she had been observing. But she was too absorbed in the new plans. "If we could do this," she was saying, "it would satisfy my best ideals of a permanent home." "But, my dear Mrs. Robeson," stammered the man of castles, "consider the location--the neighbourhood--the rural character of the surroundings." "I do," she answered, still studying the plans. "I love them all--and the old home most of all. Ever since I knew"--how had she known? they wondered--"that a change of houses was a possible thing for us I have been homesick in anticipation of a change I couldn't bear to think of. Yet I wondered if we ought to go. But if you can make this of the old home----" She lifted to her husband an enthusiastic face. His eyes met hers in a long look in which each read deep into the mind of the other. Then Anthony Robeson, like a man who hears precisely what he most wants to hear, turned smiling to Cathcart. "I think you've lost, Steve," he said. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Good Fiction Worth Reading. A series of romances containing several of the old favorites in the field of historical fiction, replete with powerful romances of love and diplomacy that excel in thrilling and absorbing interest. * * * * * WINDSOR CASTLE. A Historical Romance of the Reign of Henry VIII, Catharine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. By Wm. Harrison Ainsworth, Cloth. 12mo. with four illustrations by George Cruikshank. Price, $1.00. "Windsor Castle" is the story of Henry VIII., Catharine, and Anne Boleyn. "Bluff King Hal," although a well-loved monarch, was none too good a one in many ways. Of all his selfishness and unwarrantable acts, none was more discreditable than his divorce from Catharine, and his marriage to the beautiful Anne Boleyn. The King's love was as brief as it was vehement. Jane Seymour, waiting maid on the Queen, attracted him, and
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