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He caught her hands, and before she knew his face was close to hers "Pro in coether for the good of the people You are not meant to be a casual idler like the people at Etterick You and I are working ht earnest The man's hot face sickened her What were these ords he was speaking? She diht their purport, heard the ain Leith his quick, kindly eyes, and turned coldly to the lover

"It is quite out of the question, Mr Stocks," she said caled to you for the honour you have doneis iry eyes "Is it Lewis Haystoun?"

The girl looked quickly at hih, at that ave him his rudeness and folly, his tactless speech and his comical face He was in love with her, he offered her what he most valued, his political chances and his code of fine sentiments; it was not his blame if she found both little better than husks

Her attention flew for a moment to the place she had left, only to return to a disalley as her rejected suitor? What place had she in the frank good-fellowship of Etterick, or what part had they in the inheritance of herself and her kind? Had not Mr Stocks--now sitting glumly by her side--spoken the truth? We are only e are iven her a love for the strenuous and the unadorned which could never be cast out Here was a quandary--for at the sa her to the breaking of idols