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Florence went out of the house somewhatthe picket gate, she stepped forth with a fair renewal of her chosen h just at that ht Miss Atwater's underlip resual Spanish fixity, and her eyebrows and nose were all three perceptibly elevated At the same time, her eyelids were half lowered, while the corners of her mouth somewhat deepened, as by a veiled mirth, so that this well-dressed child strolled down the shady sideearing an expression not h-bred contempt but also of mysterious derision It was an expression that should have put any pedestrian in his place, and it see street before her appeared to be elanced from aof any of the comfortable houses, set back at the end of their "front walks" and basking amid pleasant lawns; for, naturally, this was the "best residence street" in the town, since all the Atwaters and other relatives of Florence dwelt there Happily, an old gentleone a hundred yards, and, as he turned in her direction, it becaer--that is to say, he was unknown to Florence--and he ell dressed; while his appearance of age (proba'ly at least forty or sixty or soh to be interested in other interesting persons

An extraordinary change took place upon the surface of Florence Atwater: all superciliousness and derision of the world vanished; her eyes opened wide, and into them came a look at once far-away and intently fixed Also, a frown of concentration appeared upon her brow, and her lips moved silently, but with rapidity, as if she repeated to herself soic import Florence had recently read a newspaper account of the earlier struggles of a now successful actress: As a girl, this deter the lines of various roles to herself--constantly rehearsing, in fact, upon the public thoroughfares, so carried aas she by her intended profession and so set upon beco now, except that she rehearsed no rôle in particular, and the words formed by her lips were neither sequential nor consequential, being, in fact, the following: "Oh, the darknessnever, never, never!you couldn'the wouldn'tAh, s so slowlyAh, no!" Nevertheless, she was doing all she could for the elderly stranger, and as they came closer, encountered, and passed on, she had the definite i actress ould soht of triuirl he had passed on the street, that day, so long ago! But by this time, the episode was concluded; the footsteps of hi had becoet him; which was as well, since he went out of her life then, and the two neveractress disappeared, and the previous superiority was resue eed from the "side yard" of a house at the next corner and came into her view