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"I arandson badly No, indeed!"

"Yes, indeed! He told me so himself"

"He told you so?"

"He told me so Surely he did"

"That I treated hi man love you--you let him tell you so--you tell him 'yes, I love you' and then when he says marry me, you say, 'no' Such ways I call bad, very bad! Not worthy of lad you said 'no'"

"I do not understand you"

"Neither did you understand reat mistake he made--and he did not understand you; and I do not understand such ways of the girls of this day They are shameless, and I am ashamed for you"

"Madame, you are very rude"

"And very false are you"

"I am not false"

"My Joris told me so Truth itself is Joris He would not lie He would not deceive"

"If your grandson told you I had deceived him, and refused to randson"

"That you cannot do I a;" and with these words Cornelia left the store Her cheeks were burning; the old lady's angry voice was in her ears, she felt the eyes of every one in the store upon her, and she was indignant andso inopportune Her heart had also received a new stab; and she had not at the morandmother exactly what the old lady affirmed She had not a doubt of that, but why? Why had he lied about her? Was there no other way out of his entanglement with her? She walked home in a hurry, and as soon as possible shut herself in her roo and injustice

She could arrive at only one conclusion--Annie's most unexpected appearance had happened immediately after his proposal to herself He was pressed for tirandparents would be especially likely to e her claims, and of course the quickest and surest way to prevent questioning on the matter, was to tell them that she had refused him That fact would close their mouths in sympathy for his disappointment, and there would be no further circumstances to clear up It was the only explanation of madame's attitude that was possible, and she was compelled to accept it, much as it humiliated her And then after it had been accepted and sorrowed over, there came back to her those deeper assurances, those soul assertions, which she could not either examine or define, but which she felt compelled to receive--He lovesof him