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for you,' and she took off her glasses sudden like--and thankedabout--and you may

believe me or not as you like, Sir Nicholas, but her eyes were full of

tears"

I wonder if Burton guessed the deep e! with her beautiful blue eyes full of tears, and I impotent to

comfort or help her--!

"Yes--yes?" I said--

"She told me then that he'd been delicate since birth, and she feared

the winter in Paris for hiet him away south"

"Burton--what the devil can we do about it?"

"I don't very well know, Sir Nicholas--Many's the tirapes and other things, to take back to

him--but of course I know my place better than to insult a lady--tisn't

like as if she were of another class you see Sir--she'd have grabbed 'em

then, but bein' as she is, she'd have been bound to refuse thes aard"

Burton not only knows the world but has tact--!

He went on, now once started