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"Mada But pardonht speak "A fasting es!"

"Fasting from love, Madame"

Madame St Lo held up her hands "And it's not two minutes since he took

a kiss!"

He winced, was silent aby

the tone he had adopted he cried for quarter

"A littleher with

his eyes "Do not plague ood creature--whose charms do but set off yours as the star

leads the eye to the moon--and make me the happiest man in the world by

so iveher eyes fall

coyly, and affecting to handle the tucker of her low ruff But he saw

that her lip twitched; and he could have sworn that she led

Still by an effort he controlled his feelings "Why so cruel?" he

murmured, in a tone meant for her alone, and with a look to allery, two evenings ago,