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"No doubt Still, in the interiht at me from under her delicate level brows--"in the meanwhile, will you not amuse me?"

"How, madam?"

"I shall not tell you if you call me 'madam'"

"Will the Hon Elsin Grey inform me how I may amuse her ladyship?"

"Nor that, either"

I hesitated, then leaned nearer: "Howher silken fan "How else is a woman amused?"

Her smooth hand lay across the velvet arm of the sofa; I took it and raised it to uid little sigh, fanned, and vowed I was the boldest man she had ever known

I told her how exquisite her beauty was, I protested at her coldness, I dedicatedeternal constancy; and presently rewat me out of those beautiful eyes which noere touched with curiosity

"For a jester, Carus, you are too earnest," she said

"Does pretense frighten you?"

She regardedwith fire," she said

"Tell me, heart of flint, a

"I do not know yet of what htfully, yet with that di ever upon her lips

She dropped her fan and held up one finger "Listen; let me read you Here is enerous!--look at your mouth, which God first fashions, then leaves for us to h you blush like a maiden, Carus, your eyes are steady to the eyes that punish Third, dogged! spite of the fierce impatience that sets your chiseled nose a-quiver at the nostrils There! Aipsy for a fortune? Readsilence I said, "I can not"

"Truly?"

"Truly I can not read you, Elsin"

She opened her pal in an effort to be just: "First, I am a fool; second, I aht her hand, and she looked at h