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"But I must talk money a little, dear I have my way to make in the

world"

"Thrifty, practical, and Yankee!" she jested "I suppose you can't help

it!"

"It isn't for myself--it's for you!" he returned, wistfully, and with

a voice and demeanor he offered himself as Love's sacrifice before

her--the old story of utter devotion--the ancient sacrifice

"I have all I want," she insisted

"But I ive you what you want!"

"I warn you that I hate rubbers! They haven't a spark of romance

in them Boyd, you'd be like all the rest in a little while You mustn't

do it"

"But I o to your father--if

I ever shall be able to go to him!"

"Go to him for what?"

"To ask him--to say--to--well, e feel that I'm in a position where

we can be married--"

"Of course we shall be married some day, boy, but all that will take