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capable of snubbing lanced towardcompanions withdrew to a conservative distance;

and I will say this for the St Agatha girls: their manners

are beyond criticism, and an affable discretion is

one of their rew up so fast,-in a day

and a night!"

I was glad I remembered the number of beads in her

chain; the item seemed at once to become important

"It's the air, I suppose It's praised by excellent

critics, as youto an ampler ether, a diviner air

You have attained the beatific state and at once take

flight If they confer perfection like an acadeatha's, then-"

I had never felt so stupidly helpless in s I wished to say to her;

there were countless questions I wished to ask; but her

cal She had not,

apparently, the slightest curiosity about me; and there

was no reason why she should have-I knew that well

enough! Her eyes met mine easily; their azure depths

puzzled me She was almost, but not quite, some one I

had seen before, and it was not my woodland Olivia

Her eyes, the soft curve of her cheek, the light in

her hair,-but the irl, lured only to baffle me