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He laughed as if in spite of hi I promised not to kiss you?"

"Even so," I said, and I couldn't help biting the end ofI wanted to kiss so nice is wrong!"

"Evangeline! I won't let you go--out of e little witch! You have upsetI seem to want you so very much"

"Pouf!" I said, and I pouted at hi in your life to fill it--position, riches, friends You don't want a green-eyed adventuress"

I bent down and wrote steadily to Lady Katherine I would be there about six o'clock, I said, and thanked her in o, it is only for the tined ain I say, 'Qui vivre verra!'" I laughed and rose with the note in my hand

Lord Robert looked almost ready to cry when I told hiain," he said "Lady Katherine is a relation of my aunt's husband, Lord Merrenden I don't know her ain? Young men do talk a lot of nonsense!

"I shall co on," Mr Carruthers said "Please do be in"

I promised I would, and then I came up-stairs

And so it has co to start a new phase of existence,as an adventuress!

How coe in a few days! This day three weeks ago Mrs Carruthers was alive This day teeks ago I found o I was conte Mr Carruthers; and now, for heaven, I would not marry any one! And so, for fresh woods and pastures new! Oh, I want to see the world, and lots of different huo round--that great big clock of life I want to dance and to sing and to laugh, and to live--and--and--yes, perhaps some day to kiss some one I love!