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"I don't know anything about such feelings, and therefore cannot trifle with the? You cannot deceive me; I have seen the world and know it"

"I aood sense you would not talk so to me You appear to think that I ht have you to act so?"

"The truest and strongest right You knoell that I love you with iven you ht to ask your love in return?"

Laura was conscious of a strange thrill as she heard these passionate words, for they appeared to echo in a depth of her nature of which she had not been conscious before

The strong and undoubting assurance which possessed hie mastery over her mind As he so vehee, her woman's soul trembled, and for a iving appeared to require that he should receive also She would have soon realized, however, that Haldane's attitude was essentially that of an Oriental lover, who, in his strongest attachments, is ever prone to maintain the imperative mood, and to consult his own heart rather than that of the woentleness and a tendency to respect and adhly bred in our Western civilization not to resent as an insult any such manifestation of this force as would make the quest of her love a de such a spirit She was now confused, however, and after an aard iveIf you would only remember that I am scarcely more than a child you would not talk so foolishly Please let ive me some hope Your blushes prove that you are a woman"

"They prove that I am excessively annoyed and vexed"

"Oh, Laura, after raising so many hopes you cannot--you cannot----"

"I haven't meant to raise any hopes"

"Why were you so kind to me at first?"

"Well, if you must know, my aunt wished me to be If I had dreamed you would act so I would not have spoken to you"

"What motive could Mrs Arnot have had for such a request?"