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She had a picture of a lonely childhood, fatherless andfor love that early learned to keep silence

That had been the first step in his self-possession Education had been

hard to get, and yet he had got what to the sons of rich le, it had been the e came hard because his rip was the tighter, and the habits of thought

wrought out by exercise were now giving hiht envy He could not kno the siave her an

impression of slow irresistibletoward its chosen end

When they halted at her door, she had a feeling that she could not let

hio, just yet

"You'll come in and dine with us, will you not?" she asked i tone one falls into when

surveying an i teht I'ement May I come sometime

soon?"

"I wish you would Father is really very fond of you," she went on,

defending her war for

thereat deal to him,

but--Dick has drifted away You have not been to see us for a long

tie her boldly in the face "I couldn't You made me feel then that

you despised me"