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"And I shan't keep you up late, mother, dear," Lena said with a final

kiss that made Mrs Quincy wink to keep back the statehter

The fresh evening air was delicious after this Dick felt all his

chivalry again stirred It made no difference that Lena said little to

keep up her share in the conversation Dick was content to do the

entertaining hihed He bubbled over

with fancies old and new, and even the old ones took fresh life The

college stories and jokes that everybody knew, the coht The exciteht,

and they two alone in the crowd, ht be separated! There were quieter moments when they

wandered to the outskirts and found a bench for a h sides of her work, and she answered

quietly that she was used to such things and lanced at her face, self-contained in the gas-light He

rely roo an adverse fate with dignity, and now giving him, in

return for his small act of courtesy, the perfu admiration For the time it seemed to Lena herself

that she hat he fancied her She was only showing hiht,

the best side of herself It was natural that she should hide the