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"Are you goin' to have it then?" he asked

"I'd rather have it than Annabel," she said, decisively

"An' I'd rather have it than Gladys Em'ler," he replied

There was a silence, Ursula looked up

"Will you really call her Ursula?" she asked

"Ursula Ruth," replied thevainly, as pleased

as if he had found so

It was now Ursula's turn to be confused

"It does sound awfully nice," she said "Iat all"

She stood in her white dress, wondering, down there in the

barge The lean e being, as if she lit up his face His eyes s adive her my necklace?" she said

It was the little necklace made of pieces of a at intervals on a little

golden chain, which her Uncle Toiven her She was very

fond of it She looked at it lovingly, when she had taken it

from her neck

"Is it valuable?" the man asked her, curiously

"I think so," she replied

"The stones and pearl are real; it is worth three or four

pounds," said Skrebensky from the wharf above Ursula could tell

he disapproved of her

"I ee

He flushed, and looked away into the evening

"Nay," he said, "it's not for me to say"