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"There, run and look at yourself," he co on the wall between the long s As sheto his sister
"What do you say, Chloe--is it a suitable present for her ladyship!"
Chloe took up the little trinket with a rather dubious air
"Sos," she said; and Bruce, who had a respect for his sister's opinion which she herself did not suspect, looked rueful
"But, Chloe, why not? You alear them?"
"Certainly I do" As a matter of fact she did, and the pearls or sapphires which she affected were as much a part of her personality as her black hair or her narrow blue eyes "But then Iris is a different sort of person She is younger, more natural, more unsophisticated; and I's will suit her char face"
"Oh!" Bruce's own face fell, and for once Chloe felt an impulse of compassion with another's disappointirlish," she said, handing back the case "I congratulate you on your taste, Bruce You ot more elaborate ones--like soirl"
"Why do you always speak of yourself as though you were a ed woman, Chloe?" asked her brother with a sudden curiosity "You seeer than I--why, you are only twenty-six now"
"A "In actual years I believe I a, I am a hundred years older than you, Bruce"
Cherry's return to her uncle's side with a request to hi what tickles my ear" cut short Bruce's reply, and breakfast proceeded tranquilly, while the sun shone gaily and the roses for which Cherry Orchard was fah the widely-opened s
Meanwhile Anstice was in a quandary on this beautiful sued his word to Cheniston to stand aside and leave the field open to his rival, he had gladly accepted Iris' invitation to her birthday dinner and dance; but the thought of the dances she had proht to one of the sheerest torment
It had not been easy to avoid her There had been hours in which he had had to restrain hiates to i her to receive him back into her nitude had left hireet her distantly on the rare occasions of their ; and many times he had been ready to throw his proain he had struck, and to tell her plainly in so many words that he loved her and wanted her for his wife