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"I aed to tell you ill hurt you, Rosy But there are

things which husband and wife ether I dare say it

has occurred to you already that I aate paused; but Rosamond turned her neck and looked at a vase on

the s we had to get before ere

married, and there have been expenses since which I have been obliged

to --three

hundred and eighty pounds--which has been pressing ondeeper every day, for people don't pay me

the faster because others want the money I took pains to keep it froether about it,

and you must helpher eyes on hiain That little speech of four words, like so es, is capable by varied vocal inflections of expressing all

states of u fellowship to the most

neutral aloofness Rosamond's thin utterance threw into the words

"What can--I--do!" as much neutrality as they could hold They fell

like a ate's roused tenderness He did not stor of the heart And when he

spoke again it was more in the tone of a man who forces himself to

fulfil a task

"It is necessary for you to know, because I have to give security for a

time, and a man must come to make an inventory of the furniture"

Rosamond colored deeply "Have you not asked papa for money?" she

said, as soon as she could speak