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I smiled She did not say it rudely, or I should have been uppish at once She has a wonderful charm

"You don't speak erous That is why I airls as a rule" And she went into one of her ripples of laughter "Now say you will not hurt me"

"I should not hurt any one," I said "Unless they hurt me first, and I like you, you are so pretty"

"That is all right," she said "Then we are co, because I a after dinner, and it will be all right now I told hio of the kind!" I exclai off the bed "I would as soon die as spend the rest of my life here at Tryland"

"He will be fabulously rich one day, you know, and you could get round père Montgomerie in a trice, and revolutionize the whole place You had better think of it"

"I won't," I said, and I felt my eyes sparkle She put up her hands as if to ward off an evil spirit, and she laughed again "Well, you sha'n't then Only don't flash those eive me quivers all over"

"Would you like toowned by that! Fancy seeing it every day! Fancy living with a person who never sees a joke from week's end to week's end! Oh!"

"As for that--" and she puffed smoke "Husbands are a race apart--there aregaht to ask of them; to be able to see jokes is superfluous Mine is enerally adores me, and at best only leaves , and now and then a week at Paris; but Malcolm could be sent to the Rocky Mountains, and places like that, continuously; he is quite a sportsman"

"That is not my idea of a husband," I said

"Well, what is your idea, snake-girl?"

"Why do you call irl'?" I asked "I hate snakes"