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He did not undress, but walked up and doith his regular tread

over the resounding parquet of the dining roo, over the carpet of the dark drawing roo new portrait of hi over the sofa, and across her boudoir, where two candles

burned, lighting up the portraits of her parents and wo table, that

he kneell He walked across her boudoir to the bedrooain At each turn in his walk,

especially at the parquet of the lighted dining room, he halted

and said to himself, "Yes, this I must decide and put a stop to;

I must express ain "But express what--what decision?" he said to

hi room, and he found no reply "But after

all," he asked hi into the boudoir, "what has

occurred? Nothing She was talking a long while with him But

what of that? Surely women in society can talk to who both myself and her,"

he told himself as he went into her boudoir; but this dictuht with hi at all And froain; but as he entered the dark drawing room some

inner voice told him that it was not so, and that if others

noticed it that showed that there was so room, "Yes, I must decide and put a