at the gate of the Baker Institution. It happened to be the last day of
her probation.

There has never been any difficulty in explaining Lindsay's marriage
with Alicia Livingstone even to himself; the reasons for it, indeed,
were so many and so obvious that he wondered often why they had not
struck him earlier. But it is worth noting, perhaps, that the immediate
precipitating cause arose in one evening service at the Cathedral, where
it had its birth in the very individual charm of the nape of Alicia's
neck, as she knelt upon her hassock in the fitting and graceful act
of the responses. His instincts in these matters seem to have had a
generous range, considering the tenets he was born to, but it was to
him then a delightful reflection, often since repeated, that in the
sheltered garden of delicate perfumes where this sweet person took her
spiritual pleasure there was no rank vegetation.

It is much to Miss Hilda Howe's credit that amid the distractions of her
most successful London season she never quite abandons these two to
the social joys that circle round the Ochterlony Monument and the arid
scenic consolations of the Maidan. Her own experience there is one of
the things, I fancy, that make her fond of saying that the stage is the
merest cardboard presentation, and that one day she means to leave it,
to coax back to her bosom the life which is her heritage in the wider,
simpler ways of the world. She never mentions that experience more
directly or less ardently. But I fear the promise I have quoted is one
that she makes too often.

End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Path of a Star, by
Mrs. Everard Cotes (AKA Sara Jeannette Duncan)

*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PATH OF A STAR ***

***** This file should be named 5102.txt or 5102.zip *****
This and all associated files of various formats will be found in:
http://www.gutenberg.org/5/1/0/5102/

Produced by Don Lainson

Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions
will be renamed.

Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no
one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation
(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without
permission and without paying copyright royalties. Special rules,
set forth in the General Terms of Use part of this license, apply to
copying and distributing Project Gutenberg-tm electronic works to
protect the PROJECT