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"If you would only teach us all," he murmured, "how to acquire it"

"I suppose people would say that it is a matter of temperament," she

continued "With me I believe that it is more It has become a part of

the order of my life Whatever may happen to- its miseries to-day"

"I wonder," he said, a trifle irrelevantly, "what the future has in

store for you"

She shrugged her shoulders

"Is that not rather a profitless speculation, rey eyes burned under his

shaggy eyebrows He leaned towards her as though anxious to seelike reat things," he said huskily "For great

passions, for great accomplisho through life like soever at empty doors, homeless to the last? Oh, if one could

but find the way to your heart"

She laughed gaily

"Dear friend," she said, "re to one who

has failed in the only serious object which she has ever sought to

acco to lead me into the

ruts"

He shook his head

"You were never born," he declared, "to follow the orn roads I

wonder," he added, after ayou are"

"Young? I a Anna, ill you persist in this

single-handed combat with life?"