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Quickly the sixth sense of a strange agitation went through the house I knehat they were all talking about, thinking about Subtle waves of thought see told, that so Wo against the shock, not one could be quite nonchalant at the first sight ofbeauty

My eyes flashed, athering, the tiptoe eagerness to reach our neighbourhood, the hush that fell upon the circle ih and chatter in the far corners

Oh, it was lovely, lovely! No girl could have been quite un in her honour, those , all that warance and luxury wafted as incense to her nostrils And the undercurrent of suppressed exciterew impatient of conventionality Hoas it possible for these people to look so quietly, eye to eye, upon the s? How could they turn froe frappé or salted alht some faint echo of the talk about us

"Where is she?" asked one voice,than its owner realised

"Julia's seen her; she's talked and talked till I had to co?"--Another voice--"How can she? Great beauty and great scientist--bizarre combination!"

How that would a above the others while he bobbed about helplessly in the sea of women's heads that filled the rooms and even rose upon the "bleachers," as he calls the stairs There were not really so very many people, but he didn't kno to reach us, he is so aard When he had steered his course a the women and had spoken to my Aunt, his face was radiant as he turned to me

"I knew you wouldn't fail us, Mr Burke," Aunt said hurriedly "Mrs Marshall--so glad--this is--Nelly, dear--"

Behind John was a lady waiting to lad you've come," I said to him; and the words sounded curiously to me because in my excitement I also had spoken in my "company voice"

But I had no tireet Mrs Marshall

He , while his eyes devouredlook Then he dropped quickly out of our group I was sorry, but he'll understand that I was flurried He ought to learn self- control, though; he shouldn't look at me before so many people with all his heart in his eyes