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"Won't you take off your glasses," I suggested--but she declined--

"Of what use--I can see with them on"

This disconcerted me

The waiter poured out the chablis carefully She took it casually

without a rerew round her

of?--it is i

her eyes--but soht was certainly connected with the

wine--By the direction of her head shethe label

on the bottle--Does she kno much it cost and disapprove of that in

war time--or what?

We talked of French politics next,--that is, she answered everything I

said with intelligence, and then let the subject drop

i because I kneas

deliberate and not that she is stupid, or could not keep up the most

profound conversation She seean about French literature--and at the end of the h replies to my questions to know that she is an

exquisitely cultivated person--Oh! what a companion she would make if

only I could break down this wretched barrier of her reserve!