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She dropped her voice almost to a whisper, and added: "You are the first

man who has not praised and flatteredof another, and

perhaps of the poor working wole and starve"

She looked up, and a half-smile crossed her face

"I honour you for that," she said "And perhaps if I had earlier ht have been different I used to hope for such

things long ago--that a h aiate of life Perhaps you have felt like that--that

soood or for ill,

in your hour of danger and your hour of joy?"

Her voice was not quite steady--she hardly knehy

"A dream! We all have our drea theed every folly, loaded me with luxuries, but my dream was

dispelled I respected few of thes And they have revenged the in

secretwhat you said in public thisat her constantly with his wistful eyes, the eyes of a

child, and through all the joy of her success she was conscious of a