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that matched her coat perfectly, she was not my Olivia

of the tam-o'-shanter, who had pursued the rabbit; nor

yet the unsophisticated school-girl, who had suffered anist of

the chapel She was a grooman with at least

twenty summers to her credit, and there was about her

an air of knowing the world, and of not being at all a

person one would ravely Once she suely strove to reold beads,

which I had once carried in ht about the close collar of her dress; and I was glad,

very glad, that I had ever touched anything that belonged

to her

"As the years go by we are going to dominate trade

more and more Our manufactures already lead the

world, and e ot to sell, haven't we?"

demanded Taylor

"Certainly, sir," I answered war and as

Arthur Pickering's business with her? And as

it she had said toon the chapel organ? So otten, and, indeed, I had

tried to forget I hadlittle school-girl "I see you

prefer to ignore the first tiht of this at all it had been

with righteous self-contempt Or, I may have flattered

my vanity with the reflection that she had eyed me-

her hero, perhaps-istful admiration across the

wall