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She looked up at hiravely

"And leave mamma and--Dick? Yes?"

The acquiescence touched hiland?"

She shook her head

"How cold and cruel I have beco

with herself "But I do not care; I feel as if I could leave any one--go

anywhere--if--if--I ith you!"

She moved, so that she knelt beside him, and her small brown hands were

palm doard on his breast; her eyes shone like stars with the light of

a perfect love glowing in theirl's abandonment to her first passion, she breathed: "Do you think I care whether you are poor or rich? I love you! Do you

think I care whether you are handsoo, so that you take me with you? I could not live

without you I would rather wander through the world, in rags, and

starving, cold, and hungry, than--thanand live in a

palace! I only want you, you, you! I have wanted you since--since that

first day--do you remember? I--turn your eyes away, don't look at ht--the first night! You were