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So she put out her hand with that stiffness that holds at arth

and said: "Oh, how dy' do, Mr Norris," just as though they had never sailed

together in dual solitude, and she allowed her lip to curl in evidence

of her disapproval of theof her elders

She sat down and eyed and tapped a slances of her mother at her rank desertion of

conversational duties Her father hardly noticed it He hiot that his daughter and not himself

ed cheerfully into an

animated discussion of the new tide in civic politics, while Norris

dully and conscientiously tried to bear up his end

Ellery's eyes, however, as well as the thoughts behind those superficial

thoughts that guided his words, were absorbed in the other side of the

room, where Miss Elton canvassed with her mother the merits of various

eht her perfect

before, but to-night she had added a sheen to perfection and , both reposeful and vivid He wondered if she had heard of

Dick's engagement and if her color covered a pale heart

Suddenly she flung up her head impatiently, and came behind her father's

chair to clap a small hand over his mouth in the middle of a sentence of