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"Love and lying," he mused "I wonder why they are ever such thick

friends As for Dick Hyde, lying is his native tongue; but if Katharine

Van Hee above another, it was to tell the

truth It ought to come easy to her likewise, for I'll say the same o'

the hale nation o' Dutchmen I dinna think Joris would tell a lie to

save baith life and fortune"

He looked at Katherine alave her the lilies, and bid her keep her soul sweet and pure

as their white bells She was sitting by Mistress Gordon's side, in one

of those tall-backed Dutch chairs, whose very blackness and straightness

threw into high relief her own undulating roundness and own, the shining aainst her

white throat, and the picturesque curl and flow of her fair hair

Captain Hyde sat opposite, bending toward her; and his aunt reclined

upon the couch, and watched theular look of speculation in

her half-shut eyes

Joanna was talking to Neil Semple in the recess of a ; but Neil's

face hite with suppressed anger, and, though he see to her, his eyes--full of passion--were fixed upon Hyde