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Suddenly, deep within hihted fla flicker of aspiration to better things Whatever it was, liht, the old accustomed twilit doubt crept in--the same dull acquiescence--the same uncertainty of self, the faenial tendency to drift; and with it came weariness--perhaps reaction from the recent skirmishes with that master-vice

"I suppose," he said in a dull voice, "you are right"

"No, I a her lovely face and heavy eyes "But I have chosen et"

"I hope so," he said simply

"If you hope so, you will"

He nodded, unconvinced, watching a flock of sand-pipers whirling into the cove like a gray snow-squall and fearlessly settling on the beach

After a while, with a long breath: "Then it is settled," she concluded

If she expected corroboration fro it She sat very still, her eyes lost in thought

And Morti down at thelanced about him for the most convenient avenue of self-effacement when the time arrived