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"I mustn't interfere with your task; I'll look about until you are ready"

Her shining head was already bent over the lad to respond to the touch of that lovely hand

I picked up a book, the sa, Sectioning and Staining" Near it lay a treatise on histology I opened to the first chapter, on "Protoplashts on Bathybius or the Proto which stood a jar half-filled ater in which floated what see petals of white and rose colour

While I looked, thinking only of the curve of Helen's lips and the dancing light in her eyes, and the glowing colour of her soft flesh, Prof Darrated almost at my ear

"T'at is Actinia--sea anemone"

"I co," I answered with an effort, fearing that he oot sea aneanis his hands His parchment face crackled with an alloat over the flower-like animal

"Very pretty," I said, carelessly

"Fery pretty, you call it? T'e prettiness is t'e sign of t'e gootness, t'e strengt', t'e perfection You know t'at?"

To his challenging question, in which I saw the manner of a teacher with his pupils, I replied: "In your estiether?"

"T'ey are t'e sa forefinger at a shapeless,an ooze of viscid strings

"T'at,"--he spat the word out--"is also sea ane's dying," said Helen, coreen seaweed, Ulva, in the water Wouldn't that have saved it?"

"Ugliness,"--Daranisly plant or animal is diseased, or else it is botched, inferior plant or animal It is t'e saly man or voman is veak, diseased or inferior On t'e ot'er hand,"--I felt as cooot anisain he rubbed his hands