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'GEMMA'

Sanin read this note twice through Oh, how touchingly sweet and beautiful her handwriting see to Eive hi person he as standing with his face to the wall, and scratching on it with his finger-nails, he called him aloud by name

Emil ran at once to Sanin 'What do you wantfriend'

'Monsieur Dimitri,' Emil interrupted in a plaintive voice, 'why do you address hed 'Oh, very well Listen, ht)--listen; there you understand, there, you will say, that everything shall be done exactly as is wished--(Emil compressed his lips and nodded sole to-? What would you like --and alk about the country round Frankfort till evening Would you like to?'

Eave another little skip 'I say, what in the world could be jollier? Go a ith you--why, it's silorious! I'll be sure to come!'

'And if they won't let you?'

'They will let me!'

'ListenDon't say there that I asked you to coet away all the same! What does it matter?'

Emil warmly kissed Sanin, and ran away

Sanin walked up and down the rooave himself up to the same delicate and sweet sensations, the salad that the idea had occurred to him to invite Emil to spend the next day with hiht

But most of all, he marvelled how he could have been yesterday other than he was to-day It seemed to him that he had loved Gemma for all time; and that he had loved her just as he loved her to-day