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And I was so vexed about his clothes, too! His old, long, black coat, such as lawyers wear in the West, would have been pretty nearly right-- so like what the other h, and had put on a brand new business suit Of course there wasn't another man there so clad, but he never see of the Pack didn't last long Before rown used to standing there to be looked at, people seeo, all at once, as suddenly as they had arrived

Just as the last ones were leaving, some instinct told aze upon lad look, as if I were Eve, the first and only woether, but at first he was almost curt in his effort to hide his sensibility to my beauty--as if that were a weakness!--and I was furiously shy, and felt soreater distance

"A?" he asked "Sweet sounds that have given a new definition toinof Christ, except for Joy," I mumbled; "I've had so few lessons"

"Joy doesn't know her joys; but--wouldn't she share them?"

"Sometime--perhaps--"

I couldn't answer hi over me Oh, I hope, for Milly's sake, he doesn't dislike me He seeone, I went to the dining-room with Aunt Marcia, and found there Ethel and the General and Peggy Van Dairl, all eyes and teeth Kitty ith them, and she darted towards me, but Mrs Van Dam was before her

"Sit down, both of you," she coht us cups of so--I don't knohat

Aunt Marcia breathed a little sigh of relief

"Helen," she said, "you haven't been standing too long?"

"It wasn't an instant! I could stand all day!"

Mrs Van Dairl I ahtful!" cried Kitty; "and yet--while you were !"

"You find yourself mistaken?" the General inquired

"Oh, no-o-o; not exactly; a beautiful girl, certainly; but--oh, I could havewafers, and delivering themselves of lukewarm appreciations! 'Too tall'--'too short'-- 'too dark'--'too light'; 'I like your height bettah, my deah' Helen, you dairymaid, powder! Plaster over that 'essentially improbable' colour"