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"I , "and should have said, that the lady does not love hed, and added, "Pay your court, sir You are fashioned for it"

"But I do not care to," I said

"O Lord!" reat beaht, after all, and my ill be furious with you--furious, I say And here she coht of his lovely wife, who had remained his sweetheart, too; and this I am free to say, that, spite of the looseness of the ti as I knew hiht or deed those vows he took edded Sportsambler, as e all; and I have seen him often overflushed ine, but never heard from his lips a blasphemy or foul jest, never a word unworthy of clean lips and the clean heart he carried with hied from the ladies' cloakroouests, awaited her in the great corridor, where she took his ar up into his handsome face with that indefinable smile I kneell--a smile of delicate pride, partly tender, partly humorous, tinctured with faintest coquetry

"Sweetheart," he said, "that villain, Carus, will have none of our , and I hope Rosamund twists hiht learn more innocently"

Lady Coleville flushed up and looked around at ht you a man of sense and discretion"

"But I--but she does not favor me, madam," I protested in a low voice

"It is your fault, then, and your misfortune," she said "Do you not know that she leaves us to-morrow? Sir Henry has placed a packet at our service Can you not be persuaded--for my sake? It is our fond wish, Carus How can a man be insensible to such wholesome loveliness as hers?"

"But--but she is a child--she has no heart! She is but a child yet--all caprice, innocence, and artless babble--and she loves not me, madam----"

"You love not her! Shame, sir! Open those brown blind eyes of yours, that look so wise and are so shallow if such sweetness as hers troubles not their depths! Oh, Carus, Carus, youher to us, now, for we enter She is yonder, you sloit! nose to nose with O'Neil Hasten!"