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Aunt Lucinda turned upon row flippant as well

as rude, sir! As though you knew anything of that Byington girl I

doubt if you ever saw her"

"Oh, yes--last night Miss Ei's As for yon varlet's providing, while I would not too much

criticize a man whose waistcoats I wear even under protest, it is but

fair to say that these oranges and all the fresh things taken on at

New Orleans, are ofother things for Miss Sally Byington"

"I don't think she is so beautiful," said Helena, ceasing with her

orange "Her color is so full Very likely she'll be blowsy in a few

years"

"How can you say so!" I rebuked, with nation But

at the tiht of Helena herself, the lines

of her sli she had drawn

about her neck, the wind-blown little neck curls and the long fuller

lock now plain against her fresh face, blown pale by the cool salt air

that sang above us gently I could no longer even feign an interest in

any other woman in the world So very unconsciously I chuckled to

myself, and Helena heard me

"You don't think so yourself!" she remarked

"Think what?"

"That she is so beautiful"