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only read--refined, cultured, princesses, belonging to your own social

circle,--how should I suppose you could forget theirl without a naht remain perplexed and bewildered"

"I love you," he said, with simple honesty "I seek you for my wife"

She started at these frankly spoken words, her hands partially

concealing her face, her for "Oh, I wish you hadn't said

that! It is not because I doubt you any longer; not that I fail to

appreciate all you offerin return for so vast a gift"

"Then it is true that you do not love me?"

The blood fla

of the eyes, no shrinking back She was too honest to play the coward

before him

"I shall not attempt to deceive you," she said, with a slow

i conviction "This has already

progressed so far that I noe you co or dead, le, wherever life may

take us, I shall love you"