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change into her face, a faint line on her forehead, and a suggestion

of depth, and even pain, in the pleasant shallows of her leaf-brown

eyes Perhaps the discontent was mere weariness of the whole

situation; if so, she did not recognize it for what it was Her

fellow-prisoner, straining furtively against the bond of the flesh

which was all that held hihtened her, but he

took her love so for granted, that he never suspected the discontent

However, watching David, Helena was herself unconscious of it; when

she was sure the little boy was sound asleep she stole the "forty

kisses," which as yet he had not granted; folded the sheet back lest

he ht be too hot; drew a thin blanket over his feet, and then stood

and looked at hiht, she turned away;

but hesitated at the door, and cah, she went downstairs

"He loves your rabbits," she told Sae

Rufus Smith and Mrs Minnie Lily Smith," "It is all finished," said Sam