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ireatly care The fact was far the er questioned He had been a

lonely, unhappy, discontentedyear, shunned by his

own sex, who feared hi the society of the other,

and retaining little real respect for himself Under such conditions a

reaction was not unnatural, and, short as the tihtforward chit of a girl had found an

abiding-place in his heart, had furnished him a distinct motive in life

before unknown

Even to his somewhat prejudiced eyes she was not an attractive

creature, for she possessed no clear conception of how to render

apparent those few feence and total

unconsciousness of self, coupled with lack of woether in the rough He ed shoes, the cheap patched skirt, the tousled auburn hair,

the sunburnt cheeks with a suggestion of freckles plainly visible

beneath the eyes, and so his shoulders Yet underneath the tan there was the glow

of perfect young health; the eyes were frank, brave, unflinching; while

the rounded chin held a world of character in its firht back to hiaot it

in her," he thought, silently, "and, by thunder! I 'et it out"