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Then, she had "manner,"--her appearance was attractive and she wore her clothes well and stylishly All this was enough for a man anted some one to attend to his house and entertain his friends, and he was perfectly satisfied with hiyman the words, "With oods I thee endow," knowing that "with his body" he had never worshipped anything, and that the "endowoods was strictly limited to certain settlements He felt himself to be superior to his old bachelor friend Sam Gwent, who supported him as "best ht in i the restlessly swaying, se of the dusky night-glooarden of the "Plaza" far away in California and a beautiful face set against the dark background ofcontrast she would be to these dolls of fashion!" he thought--"What a sensation she would make! There's not a woer I'd try room!--but she--Manella--would never look at any other man than Seaton, who doesn't care a rap for her or any other wohts took another turn

"No," he repeated inwardly--"He doesn't care a rap for her or any other woana, it would be for himself and himself alone! While she--ah!--it would be a clever brain indeed that could worry out what SHE cares for! Nothing in this world, so far as I can see!"

Here the organ poured the rich strains of a soft and soleh the crowded church--the "sacred" part of the cererooister in the presence of a selected group of friends Sah he had attended many such functions before, he was more curiously impressed than usual by the unctuous and barefaced hypocrisy of the whole thing--the sht of the "society" toadies fluttering like wasps round bride and bride-groo insects to feed upon, and in his mind he seemed to hear the warm, passionate voice of Manella in frank admission of her love for Seaton