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"Ah, the cushions, and the scrap of paper, and the aluminium

flask," said Hanaud; and the triuenuine friendliness "You ry

with me if I keep you in the dark for a little while I, too, Mr

Ricardo, have artistic inclinations I will not spoil the

remarkable story which I think Mlle Celie will be ready to tell

us Afterwards I illingly explain to you what I read in the

evidences of the rooreatly puzzled me then But it

is not the puzzle or its solution," he saidhere Consider the people Mnorant woenerosity,

her desire to converse with Mreat ladies

of the past, and her love of a young, fresh face about her; Helene

Vauquier, the maid with her six years of confidential service, who

finds herself suddenly supplanted and irl who has supplanted her; the young girl

herself, that poor child, with her love of fine clothes, the

Bohe the upon them and upon misery and starvation and

despair as the commonplaces of life, keeps a simplicity and a

delicacy and a freshness which would have withered in a day had

she been brought up otherwise; Harry Wetherine if you can what his feelings must have been, when in

Mme Dauvray's bedrooid beneath the sheet, he saw me raise the block of wood