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Morgana shrugged her shoulders

"Each one to his taste!" she said, airily--"Soold--some nut-brown But does it matter at all what men think or care for? To ht to prefer hanging to e--I do, myself!"

Fascinated by her wonderful elfin look as she stood like a white iris in its silken sheath, her sarment, Manella drew nearer, so to real, true e!" she said--"When one loves, it is different! In love I would rather hang than not give ive myself in all I am, and all I have! And YOU--you who look so pretty and wonderful--alana laughed--a little laugh sweet and cold as rain tinkling on glass

"No, indeed!" she answered--"I have never felt like THAT! I hope I shall never feel like THAT! To feel like THAT is to feel like the female beasts of the field who only wait and live to be used by the'all they are and all they have,' poor creatures! The bull does not 'love' the cow--he gives her a calf When the calf is born and old enough to get along by itself, it forgets its ets IT, while the sire is blissfully indifferent to both! It's really the sa with human animals,--especially nowadays--only we haven't the honesty to adht to be far above 'feeling like THAT!--you are a nobler creature than a cow! No wonder hed again, and tripped lightly to the looking-glass

"I e toready to start I've had a lovely night's rest and a?" and Manella gave a little cry of pain--"I aled humour and disdain "You quaint creature! Why should I stay? There's nothing to stay for!"

"If there's nothing to stay for, why did you come?"

This was an unexpected question, the result of a subconscious suggestion in Manella's mind which she herself could not have explained