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He led her to the gate and opened it "You hts," he said, his features set in a o to bed and try to sleep"

"Sleep!" she laughed, harshly "I'll have to wake The happy chickens, ducks, turkeys, and twittering, chirping birds will rouse me at sun- up I raraphy, and arithmetic I must correct compositions, write on a blackboard with chalk, point to dots onones, talk to parents, and through it all think, think, think! I a to me in all the world is that I am Dolly Drake? Sometimes I pronounce the name in wonder, as if I had never heard it before I seem to have been a thousand persons in former periods"

"Dolly, listen" Saunders bent till his face was close to hers "I am your friend I shall be true to you forever and ever Fro else on earth can be of so much importance to me as your welfare To help you shall be my constant aim"

"I know it, dear, sweet friend" The words bubbled fro at a time like this! Don't-- don't stop me" And therewith she raised his hand, pressed her lips upon it, and turned quickly away