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farther side were the meadows, and then the hills, smoky in their warray cloud in the

west He wondered what Alice was doing at thisback from church When he was at

ho her

little prayers This assumption of the Pryor-Barr liabilities would be

a serious check to the fortune he was building up for her; he set his

jaw angrily at the thought, but of course it couldn't be helped

Furtherreat pride in the almost quixotic sense of

honor that had proave him a secret

satisfaction, quite fatuous and childlike and entirely out of keeping

with certain other characteristics, also secret

There was a gleam of humor in his eyes, as he said to himself that he

hoped Alice would not ask hi

Alice had such a feeling about truth, that he did not like to tell her

even little lies, little ones that she could not possibly find out It

was the sentiirl that offended him, not the

fib; for Mr Lloyd Pryor had no doubt that, in certain overned by the law of benefit