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We talked on and on He began to show me he was deeply interested in me His eyes, so blue and expressive, said evendown; his eyelashes are absurdly long and curly, not jet black like mine and Mr Carruthers's, but dark brown and soft and shaded, and, oh! I don't kno to say quite why they are so attractive When one sees the on his cheek it makes one feel it would be nice to put out the tip of one's finger and touch thehtful afternoon Only, alas! it was all too short

"We will arrange to sit together after dinner," he whispered, as even before the dressing-gong had rung, Lady Katherine came and fussed about, and collected every one, and , on the way up-stairs, to me, that I need not coain, but re myself to company

Stay in my room, indeed, with Lord Robert at dinner--never!

However, when I did cooha Mackintosh, cousin of Mary's husband, and on the other side the parson The one talked about botany in a hoarse whisper, with a Scotch accent, and the other gobbled his food, and made kind of pious jokes in between the mouthfuls

I said, when I had borne it bravely up to the ices, I hated knohat floere composed of, I only liked to pick them The youth stared, and did not speak much more For the parson, "Yes" now and then did, and like that we got through dinner

Malcolht have been better than the botanist, but I suppose Lady Katherine felt these tould be a kind of half ay with them

After dinner Lady Verningham took me over to a sofa with her, in a corner The sofas here don't have pillows, as at Branches, but fortunately this one is a little apart, though not comfortable, and we could talk

"You poor child!" she said; "you had a dull ti you What did that Mactavish creature find to say to you?"

I told her, and that his name was Mackintosh, not Mactavish

"Yes, I know," she said "But I call the whole clan Mactavish; it is near enough, and it does worry Mary so, she corrects et married, and be just like Mary?" There was a twinkle in her eye