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"There now!" cried A hair from my brows, and exae in you isbetter unconsciously to yourself in this lovely air and scene, and the long afternoon sleep you've just had has completed the cure"

I smiled at her enthusiasht as far as my actual looks went No one would believe that I was, or ever had been, ill In silence I loosened an to brush it and put it in order before the hts were very busy I remembered distinctly all that had happened in the studio of Raffaello Cellini, and still more distinctly was I able to recall every detail of the three dreams that had visited me in my slumber The NAME, too, that had been the key-note of them all I also remembered, but soht, "Shall I take a pencil and write it down lest I forget it?" and the same instinct said "No" A brook all the time I thus meditated over the occurrences of the day

"Say, child!" she exclaio to the dance?"

"Certainly I will, with pleasure," I answered, and indeed I felt as if I should thoroughly enjoy it

"Brava! It will be real fun There are no end of foreign titles corumpy about it,--he always is when he has to wear his dress suit He just hates it That man hasn't a particle of vanity He looks handso else, and yet he doesn't see it But tell me," and her pretty face became serious with a true feht no ball fixings, have you?"

I finished twisting up the last coil of my hair, and turned and kissed her affectionately She was the enerous of women, and she would have placed any one of her elaborate costumes at my disposal had I expressed the least desire in that direction I answered: "No, dear; I certainly have no regular ball 'fixings,' for I never expected to dance here, or anywhere for thattrunks full of Parisian toilettes that you indulge in, you spoilt bride! Still I have so that may do In fact it will have to do"