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"Yes Those were, I believe, his exact words Can you wonder that I

hardly kno I stand in your sight?"

"I do not at all understand," she faltered "Truly, Lieutenant Brant,

I do not I feel that Mr Haood

and sufficient reason He is not a man to be swayed by prejudice; yet,

whatever the reasonabout it"

"But you do not answer my last query"

"Perhaps I did not hear it"

"It was, How do I stand in your sight? That is of far more importance

to me now than any unauthorized colanced up into his serious face shyly, with a little diht not care to have me

say However, as I once infor

my ideal, possibly it may now be my duty to qualify that harsh

state that I am your ideal?"

"Oh, indeed, no! We never realize our ideals, you know, or else they

would entirely cease to be ideals My confession is limited to aman"