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"Treachery not to post up a list of all one's--"

"One's conquests?" said Bessie, snatching the word out of her brother's

enious intimation of the number one

has to boast?"

"Only in character," calh," said Rachel, who had by this time collected herself;

"if this is so, it hed

about"

"So it is," said Alick, with a tone of feeling "It has been a mournful

business from the first, and I do not see how it is to end"

"Why, I suppose Colonel Colin is his own master now," said Bessie; "and

if he has no objection I do not see who else can make any"

"There are people in the world who are what Tennyson calls 'selfless,'"

returned Alick

"Then the objection comes from her?" said Rachel, anxiously

"So saith Lady Temple," returned Bessie

They were by this tiiven e news in the face,

but consciousness and fear of the construction that e of purpose forced her on, and in a few moments the three were in

the little parlour, where Ermine's station was now by the fire There