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this Charmian And, in my mind, I saw her, not as she had first

appeared, tall and fierce and wild, but as she had been when she

stooped to bind up the hurt in my broith her deep eyes

brimful of tenderness, and her h whether they were blue or brown

or black, I could not for the life of et the look they had held when she gave that

final pat to the bandage And here I found that I was turning

a little locket round and round in ers, a little,

old-fashioned, heart-shaped locket with its quaint inscription: "Hee who entil ed in a reverie, when a shadow fell

across the floor, and looking up I beheld Prudence, and

straightway, slipping the locket back into the bosom of ht thus idle

Her face was troubled, and her eyes red, as from recent tears,

while in her hand she held a cruan, and then stopped, staring at me

"Well, Prudence?"

"You--you've seen hie!"