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"There is a way," she contradicted "You can thankjust

that way about it"

"Then, I do thank you"

She sat looking up at hi

"Exactly what do you feel, Samson," she asked "I rance and subtle beauty of

her stole into his veins and brain, in a sudden intoxication His hand

went out to seize hers This beauty which would last and not wither

into a hag's ugliness with the first breath of age--as htened and stood looking down

"Don't ask me that, please," he said, in a carefully controlled voice

"I don't even want to ask myself My God, Drennie, don't you see that

I'm afraid to answer that?"

She rose from her seat, and stood for just an instant rather

unsteadily before hied "Theus as foolish as

children Old friend, we are growing silly Let's go in, and be

perfectly good hostesses and social lions"