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"Why have you not worn it before?" he said, sweeping her slender figure from head to foot in open adhed "I only got the cash to pay for it yesterday, and I would not wear it till it wasprivate lessons to his children and sent it right away to the dresslad that no one else was present "I'irl You are the most beautiful creature that ever lived"

"Oh, I don't know!" She shook her head wistfully "I wish I could think so, but I can't There are so ood looks Do you know I didn't sleep ht?"

"I'h the open door into the house as if to see if any one ithin hearing Then she caher step on which she stood, her pretty brow under a frown "I was bothered after I went to bed," she said, frankly "I don't think I ought to--to have kissed you as I did there at the gate I would have scolded Ann for the sa, even if she were as old as I aht I was so happy over Tobe's e that--Tell irl ill act as--as boldly as I did? Tell me; tell me truly"

"Not if he loves her as I do you, Dolly," he said, under his breath, "and knows that she feels the sa like that trouble you It is really your wonderful purity that makes you even think of it"

She seelance ly "It is queer that I should have let it worry me some All sorts of fears and queer ideas flocked about irl, and you nohat my--my people are like Why, if my father were now in prison I could not refuse to--to stick to hihter should, and for a man in your position to--to--" She broke off, her eyes now on the ground