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answered: "No, darling, Arthur never did, and never will, but so so plain"

Poor Anna! Her heart gave one great throb as she said this, and then

lay like a dead weight in her boso cheeks, Lucy exclailad I have only known you since Sunday, but you

see you that

ever since I firstthe Alps I have lived in a kind of

ideal world of which he was the center I am an orphan, you know, and

an heiress, too There is half a e of it Noill you believe ive every dollar of this for Arthur's love if I could not have

it without"

"I do believe you," Anna replied, inexpressibly glad that the

gathering darkness hid her white face froirl went on "The world, I knoould say that a poor

clergyood match for me, but I do not care for that

Cousin Fanny favors it, I am sure, and Uncle Hetherton would not

oppose me when he saas in earnest Once the world, which is a

very s, of New York, for

me; but my! he was too proud and lofty even to talk to me much, and I

would not speak to hi that 'I was a

pretty little plaything, but far too frivolous for a sensible h, and don't I hope that when

he gets a wife she will be exactly such a frivolous thing as I am"