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She faintly shook her head, but said, "I'll try to think of you

more--if I can"

With this Fitzpiers was compelled to be satisfied, and he asked her

when she would ht"

"If it ht it must!"

"This tiain if I can

shorten the interval"

"Well, be that as it may, I shall come at least twice a week to look at

your "

"You ht"

"Say 'husband'"

She see, "No,

no; I cannot," slipped through the garden-hedge and disappeared

Fitzpiers did not exaggerate when he told her that he should haunt the

precincts of the dwelling But his persistence in this course did not

result in his seeing her htly interval

which she had herself marked out as proper At these ti wore on the ed but little with the increase in

their nus faer one of the