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The saitation which always shoe talk thus overcaain She did not speak

"I could understand it better if you were a hysterical character You

did not seem to be so, but now no ridiculous school iven to the vapours You will absolutely destroy the

re respect I have for you, unless you tell me the truth, and what

is underneath in yourher to the quick, as I had meant that it should She bounded

up

"Well,--I will then I hate being in the house--with yourall over, and as white as hed softly My joy was so iin with, I have no mistress, but if I had how can it possibly

ed to be only my

secretary"

"You have no nobly

"I had one, as of course you know, but the reeable companion, I parted from her, at the time when

you saw the counterfoils in the cheque-book, and changed to me from

that moment"

"Then--?" she still looked incredulous

"She has a cousin living in the flat above, married to an anticaire