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"I think she has left off her long words," said Rose

"She is not a civilian now," said Conrade, quite unconscious of Ermine's

amusement at his confidences as he pushed behind her "I did think it

ato marry her, but that's what it is Military

discipline hasplaced the chair on a spot

which coirl rushed off to take their

part in the sport, leaving Er of perfor to the

ure in the centre, who ht different individuals in the ring,

and put theh a formula which provoked shouts of ht, it was pretty to watch the 'prononce' dresses

of the parish children, interspersed with the entry, and here and there a taller lady Then Er her boys, and Lady Te movements, as she advanced and receded

with Stephana in one hand, and a shy infant-school child in the other

But Erh Rachel's aniestures were fully discernible, and her little Una's

arch toss of the head uiled away, and who had beco little ones of the flock, was neither with her not with his

chief protector, Rose In a second or two, however, the step that to