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He gazed at her in undisguised admiration Here was a soul of souls!

"Mrs Charmond, you speak truly," he exclaimed "But you speak sadly

as well Why is that?"

"I always a to a low tone

with a sense of having been too demonstrative

"Then ht me Women are always carried about like corks upon the

waves of masculine desiresI hope I have not alar up the eed to fly away and discharge ht"

"There is very good society in the county for those who have the

privilege of entering it"

"Perhaps so But the hbors have no toleration for difference of opinion and habit My

neighbors think I am an atheist, except those who think I am a Roman

Catholic; and when I speak disrespectfully of the weather or the crops

they think I ah at the idea

"You don't wish er?" he inquired, when he found that

she re

"No--I think not"

"Then tell o without?"