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"This is the hour I like best--don't you?"

A proper sense of his dignity caused hiotten the hour Beaufort "

She looked a? Mr Beaufort took me to see a number of houses--since it seems I'm not to be allowed to stay in this one" She appeared to dismiss both Beaufort and himself from her mind, and went on: "I've never been in a city where there see in des quartiers excentriques What does it matter where one lives? I'm told this street is respectable"

"It's not fashionable"

"Fashionable! Do you all think so much of that? Why not make one's own fashions? But I suppose I've lived too independently; at any rate, I want to do what you all do--I want to feel cared for and safe"

He was touched, as he had been the evening before when she spoke of her need of guidance

"That's what your friends want you to feel New York's an awfully safe place," he added with a flash of sarcas thetaken on a holiday when one has been a good little girl and done all one's lessons"

The analogy ell ether please hi flippant about New York, but disliked to hear any one else take the sain to see what a powerful engine it was, and how nearly it had crushed her The Lovell Mingotts' dinner, patched up in extreht to have taught her the narrowness of her escape; but either she had been all along unaware of having skirted disaster, or else she had lost sight of it in the triu Archer inclined to the former theory; he fancied that her New York was still completely undifferentiated, and the conjecture nettled hiht," he said, "New York laid itself out for you The van der Luydens do nothing by halves"

"No: how kind they are! It was such a nice party Every one seems to have such an esteeht have spoken in that way of a tea-party at the dear old Miss Lannings'

"The van der Luydens," said Archer, feeling himself pompous as he spoke, "are the most powerful influence in New York society Unfortunately--owing to her health--they receive very seldom"