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"I should think so"

Then so seemed to strike her suddenly, of how hateful it ed and she almost whispered: "It--will seem like a new life"

"I et away fros which are worth while"

"Shall you soon go into Parliament?"

"I suppose it will take a year or two, but we shall begin to pave the

way directly we go back to England, and I hope that will be for

Christ at me I could never catch her eye, but her adorable

little profile was good enough to contehted me, and another in the nape of her neck filled s to kiss it, and the pearly skin beneath it!

I think I deserve great praise for the way I acted, for the whole thing

was acting I was cold, and as haughty and aloof as she was herself, but

I used every art I knew of to draw her out and make her talk

She is such a lady that she fell into the stride and spoke politely as

if to soer who had taken her into dinner at a party

At last we talked of the Duchesse, and we discussed her interesting