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"Is she a young lady, orthe stranger sitting opposite to hi reeneral, and young ladies in particular, he expected to solve the question at once, and was perplexed that he could not He had flirted with several ht that he was profoundly versed in the mysteries of the sex "They naturally lean toward and look up toin personal appearance, who does not have his oith therace which fine-looking young ht by some severe experiences, if it is ever learned Haldane, as yet, had not received such wholesome depletion His self-approval and assurance, moreover, were quite natural, since his mother and sisters had seldo these traits The yielding of women to his will and wishes had been one of the ard it as the natural order of things Without forarded Mrs Arnot's kindness, by which she sought to gain a helpful influence over hiely due to some peculiar fascination of his ohich made hi stranger on the opposite side of the table would prove no exception to the rule, and all he had to do was to satisfy hi to make it worth while to pay her a little attention

But for soreatly i reirlish shyness? It must be the latter, for there was no occasion for pride and dignity in her ht that possibly Mrs Arnot had not told her who he was, and that she looked upon hiree To remove from her mind any such error, his tones and

"If she has any sense at all," he thought, "she shall see that I have peculiar claims to her respect"

As he proceeded in these tactics, there was a growing expression of surprise and a trace of indignation upon the young girl's face Mrs Arnot watched the by-play with an amused expression There was not much cynicism in her nature She believed that experience would soon prick the bubble of his vanity, and it was her disposition to smile rather than to sneer at absurdity in others Besides, she was just She never applied to a young man of twenty the standard by which she would e, and she remembered Haldane's antecedents But Mr Arnot went to his library : "The ridiculous fool!"