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The little touch of sentiment that flashed, as it were, from Randolph Chance as he lifted me off the pier, was presently blotted, as far as effect uponto the Purblind household, and the renewal of his attentions to her At least I regarded them as renewed, and I coldly turned o his ithout further thought or speculation

I was daily becoory, a man of years, whom I had known for some time He had been a visitor at our house when , and had, from time to time, shown me friendly attentions since their death He frequently invitedRandolph Chance seldom did, and in le women are very dependent upon their o out at night alone, and even when they go in cos to it when a woe that many men--many of those who believe in the dependence of wo alone to theater, concert, and lecture, and so force the women of their acquaintance into a position which their sentiments would see in his attentions, Mr Gregory was htful and kind, and feomen are without appreciation of conduct of this type

Life flowed on with me with a quiet current I was not a woman to make scenes with myself or others, and my circumstances were such as to perht afternoon, just as I returned fro walk, Mrs Purblind ran over to see me, and soon afterward, Mrs Cynic dropped in I never could bear this latter wo that is more or less unhealthful to the moral nature of all who come in contact with it, just as the

It chanced that I had just finished writing a little story, drawn froe of my domestic experience; it was so endeared to et it, and yet, in the course of years, its outlines would probably fade a trifle if I did not take care to preserve their distinctness; for that reason I had written it out