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bent his head in awhile, they found tiot your letter," he said, seriously, "and I caan to speak of concrete facts, he dropped again into ordinary

English, and did not know that he had changed his manner of speech

For an instant, Sally looked up into his face, then with a sudden

laugh, she informed him: "I can say, 'isn't,' instead of, 'hain't,' too How did you like th, and looked at her pridefully, but

under his gaze her eyes fell, and her face flushed with a sudden

diffidence and a new shyness of realization She wore a calico dress,

but at her throat was a soft little bow of ribbon She was no longer

the totally unself-conscious wood-nyh as natural and

instinctive as in the other days Suddenly, she dreay from him a

little, and her hands went slowly to her breast, and rested there She

was fronting a great crisis, but, in the first flush of joy, she had

forgotten it She had spent lonely nights struggling for rudiht to refashion herself, so that, if he came, he

need not be ashamed of her And now he had come, and, with a terrible

clarity and distinctness, she realized how pitifully little she had

been able to accomplish Would she pass htened, self-conscious and palpitating, then her voice came in

a whisper: "Sas we

said were a long tiin

all over again"