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He glanced curiously aside at her half-averted face "At first sight I

had supposed you scarcely irl, but now you speak like

a wo all complimentary

phrases"

"Indeed, no; not if they be sincerely expressed as between enerally address women as you started to address ht between thee in fulsome compliment, they

whisper soft nonsense which they would be sincerely ashamed to utter in

the presence of their own sex, they act as if they were aent hus Their own notion

seeh I alanced curiously at her book "And yet you condescend to read love

stories," he said, s "I expected to discover a treatise on

philosophy"

"I read whatever I chance to get my hands on, here in Glencaid," she

retorted, "just as I converse hoever coe"

"You are indeed young," he said, quietly, "and with some of life's

lessons still to learn One is that frankness is not necessarily