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"Do you reatly?" asked Made up behind Edna, who had just left her cottage on

her way to the beach She spent much of her time in the water since she

had acquired finally the art of swi As their stay at Grand Isle

drew near its close, she felt that she could not give too much time to a

diversion which afforded her the only real pleasurable moments that she

knew When Mademoiselle Reisz came and touched her upon the shoulder

and spoke to her, the woht which was ever in

Edna'swhich constantly possessed her

Robert's going had so

out of everything The conditions of her life were in no way changed,

but her whole existence was dulled, like a faded garht him everywhere--in others whos to Mada-machine She sat

there and chatted at intervals as Robert had done She gazed around

the roo upon the wall, and

discovered in some corner an old family albu to Madaures and faces which she discovered between its

pages

There was a picture of Madame Lebrun with Robert as a baby, seated in

her lap, a round-faced infant with a fist in his ested the e

of five, wearing long curls and holding a whip in his hand It hed, too, at the portrait in his first long trousers;