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He never spoke of her again, or referred, in the eley The oreeable one

to Rosa for several reasons Silence, she believed, was to oblivion

as afrom herself, she adopted the theory

that people were apt to forget what they never talked of themselves,

nor heard mentioned by others Further diplo the truth, to say nothing of plump falsehoods These last

cost her conscience so in

full what had happened was a work of art A downright lie was a

stroke of heavy business, unsuited to her airy genius--and when the

Aylett-Chilton complication was upon the tapis, it was difficult to

avoid undertaking such

For three weeks, then, Mr Frederic Chilton and the Virginian belle

visited concert, theatre, and asseallery of House and Senate cha the broad avenues fros--which were not ether

faht confidentially, by the

fireside in the family parlor It must not be inferred from their

constant intercourse that he had the field entirely to himself

Gallants of divers pretensions--first-class, mediocre, and

contemptible--considered with a practical eye to "settle witch as as-burner, and