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"Here they are"

She looked at me as she took them I dropped hbour and said sohed Evidently I was the cause of their mirth, and

my embarrassment increased At that time I had as mistress a very

affectionate and sentimental little person, whose sentireatly I realized the pain I iven her by what I now experienced, and for five minutes I loved her as

no wolaces without taking any more notice of me

The friend who had introduced me did not wish to let uerite," he said, "you : you overwhelree that he can not find a word

to say"

"I should say, on the contrary, that he has only come with you because

it would have bored you to come here by yourself"

"If that were true," I said, "I should not have begged Ernest to ask

your permission to introduce me"

"Perhaps that was only in order to put off the fatal uerite, one can not but

know the delight they take in pretending to be witty and in teasing the

people whom they meet for the first time It is no doubt a return for