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deserve that I should repeat the on sos the downy silver peach; But as

dainty as the beauty of the blooe it--is the bloom on Annette's cheek"

"Oh, monsieur! I do not knohat to say, if you really made these

verses about me If you did, they are not true; I am sure they are

not;" and her confusion was a ht to see

"But I have not described your eyes yet; here are the two lines that

I led with the deepest dusk of

night;--

Eyes with lustre rich and glorious like soht"

"Oh, no, no, monsieur, they are not true; I don't want you to say

any more of them to me," and she put her hand over her face; for the

dear little one's ereat

"That is all I wrote about you; but I may write some more You say,

petite, that they are not true I confess that they are not--true

enough Why, sweet, brave, andyour merits in the full I have so far tried to

explain only what is beautiful in your face; but, darling, you have a

nobleness of soul that no language of mine could describe