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"Forgive you! You don't knohat you are talking about Let ive you"

At that next reception which she and Brantain had been talking about she

approached the young man with a delicious frankness of manner when she

saw him there

"Will you let me speak to you abut perturbed smile He seemed extremely unhappy;

but when she took his ar a retired

corner, a ray of hope led with the almost comical misery of his

expression She was apparently very outspoken

"Perhaps I should not have sought this interview, Mr Brantain;

but--but, oh, I have been very uncomfortable, almost miserable since

that little encounter the other afternoon When I thought how you s"--hope was plainly gaining

the ascendancy over uileless face--"Of

course, I know it is nothing to you, but for my own sake I do want you

to understand that Mr Harvy is an inti

Why, we have always been like cousins--like brother and sister, I may

say He is my brother's most intimate associate and often fancies that

he is entitled to the saes as the family Oh, I know it