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And what then? Well, I should never see her again, once she was safe a her kin in the Canadas And she was doubtless the fairest woht--not in an evil sense, God wot! but prone to i at the world out of two li after breeze-blown rose-leaves A man may admire such a child, nay, learn to love her dearly, in a way , and how could she inspire it in a man of the world No, I did not love her--could not love aa man like me with her airs and vapors and her insolent lids and lashes Lord! but she carried it high-handed withwhen my attention wandered midway in the pretty babble hich she condescended to entertain me And with all that--and after all is said--there was so in me that warmed to her--perhaps the shadow of kinship--perhaps because of her utter ignorance of all she prated of so wisely Her very crudity touched the chord of chivalry which is in allto a touch or a blow, but always answering in soree, I think Yet, if this is so, how could Walter Butler find it in his heart to trouble her?

That hewhat she was Doubtless he hoped to find soer loved; there were laws corant him free, how could he find it in his heart to cherish passion for a child? He was no boy--this pallid rake of thirty-five--this melancholy squire of dames who, ere he enty, had left a trail in Albany and Tryon none too savory, if wide report be credited--he and Sir John Johnson!--as pretty a brace of libertines as one ht find even in that rotten town of London

Well, I would send him on his business without noise or scandal, and I'd hold a séance, too, with Mistress Elsin, wherein a curtain-lecture should be read, kindly, gravely, but with firs luxuriously, pleasantly conte the stern yet kindly rôle I was to play: first send hi, next enact the sole forgiveness in one breath, retire as gravely as I entered--a highly interesting figure,atrhapsody