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"Instead of which," said I, speaking (as it were), despite

myself, "instead of which, you find er to take advantage of your unprotected

woht, her

head thrown back; wherefore, reading her scorn ofthe proud contempt of her mouth, a very deh that rang from my

lip, proceeded from no volition of mine

"And yet, madam," my voice went on, "this despicable blacksuineas for you to-day"

"Peter!" she cried, and shrank away from me as if I had

threatened to strike her

"Ah!--you start at that--your proud lip treh a large one"

"Peter!" she cried again, and now there was a note of appeal in

her voice

"Indeed, raded a fellow as this blacksmith

could not very well sell that which he does not possess--could

he? And so the hundred guineas go a-begging, and you are still

--unsold!" Long before I had done she had covered her face again,

and, coers

and sparkling as they fell And once again the devil within hed loud and harsh But, while it still echoed, I had flung

ivebefore her, I strove to catch her gown, and kiss its