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"Your Highness, the truth is there are greatin Spain

His Majesty was needed there ently He had to decide between

Innspruck and Cadiz, and it seereat

confidence in him and at the same time serve you best--"

Clementina would not allow him to complete the sentence Her cheek

flushed, and she said quickly,-"You are right, Mr Wogan The King is right Mine was a girl's thought

I aan was fairly

well pleased with his apology for his King It was not quite the truth,

no doubt, but it had spared Clementina a trifle of huhts He bent over her hand and would

have kissed it, but she stopped him

"No," said she, "an honest handclasp, if you please; for no woan, looking into her

frank eyes, was not, after all, nearly so well pleased with the untruth

he had told her She was an uncoo about with shifts

and contrivances Her open face, with its broad forehead and the clear,

steady eyes of darkest blue, claiative The blush

which had faded froan to babble