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As he entered, she saw that he was about to perforh to prevent even that one, and so reduced his whole career to one consistently elegant and polished surface

He had taken her hand, and was about to address her in the nity of self-sacrifice, when she interrupted hi briefly: "Mr Beaumont, please listen to me first Before the e in my fortunes, and I may add, in so many of my friends, I had decided to say to you in all sincerity and, kindness that I could not ht to give to a husband I now repeat ain stunned and bewildered A woe your decision?" he faltered, fearing that so," she coldly replied, and with an involuntary expression of conte around her flexible mouth

"But ill you do?" he asked, prompted by not a little curiosity

"Support myself by honest work," was her quiet but very decisive answer

Mr Beau ant farewell address, and depart, and he wouldshe heard of him was that he had started on a tour of Europe, and, no doubt, in his old character of a connoisseur, whose judgment few dared to dispute