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never ask you who your first love was, but I would like to know if you

have quite forgotten her"

"Have you forgotten Thornton Hastings?" Arthur asked, laughingly, and

Lucy replied, "Of course not; one never forgets, but I don't care a

pin for him now, and, did I tell you Fanny writes that rumor says he

will marry Anna Ruthven?"

"Yes, no, I did not know--I a on the floor, thus hiding his face froossip, and continued:

"She is a great belle, Fanny says--dressed beautifully and in perfect

taste, besides talking as if she knew sos, who takes her out to ride and drive, and all this after I

warned her against him, and told her just what he said of auntlets, and Arthur aiting to see her

out, but she still lingered on the threshold, and at last said to him,

"I wonder you never fell in love with Anna yourself I am sure if I

were you I should prefer her toto study There are piles of books in the library at

Prospect Hill, and you shall see what a faet puzzled, will you help me?"