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"Thank you Thank you"

As I brought another of the ragged chairs to the hearth and sat down, I

remarked a new expression on her face, as if she were afraid of me

"I want," she said, "to pursue that subject you mentioned to me when you

were last here, and to show you that I am not all stone But perhaps you

can never believe, now, that there is anything hu words, she stretched out her tre to touch ain

before I understood the action, or kne to receive it

"You said, speaking for your friend, that you could tellthat you would like done, is it

not?"

"So that I would like done veryto her that secret history of the partnership I had

not got far into it, when I judged fro

in a discursive way of me, rather than of what I said It see, many moments passed before she showed

that she was conscious of the fact