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"Well, then, yes I a to it very

keenly," he said, stifling a sigh "I don't h time of it--the majority of the sons of men find the way paved

with flints--but because----What an ungrateful brute I ive me; I'm still rather weak"

"Rather!"

"Very weak, then; and I talk like a hysterical girl But, seriously, if

any iven his choice, I think he'd prefer to cross the river at

once to facing the gray and dreary days that lie before him"

"But the days that lie before you are brilliant; criray and dreary," she said "Have you forgotten your

success at--at the ball? that you were to play at the duchess'?

Everybody says that you will becoreat future lies

before you, Mr Falconer"

"Do they?" he said, gazing at thedreaotten I wonder whether they are right?"

"I know, I feel, they are right," she said quietly "Very soon we shall

all be bragging of your acquaintance--I, for one, at any rate I shall

never lose an opportunity of talking of 'reat musician, you know'"