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"Gad, I was quite wight," said the Baronet. "He has cwied, and he has got it, you see. Go it, Fwank, old boy."

"Sir Francis is a very judicious parent," Miss Amory whispered. "Don't you think So, Miss Bell?

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I sha'n't call you Miss Bell I admired you so at church. made, nor your bonnet very fresh. But you have such beautiful gray eyes, and such a lovely tint." "Thank you," said Miss Bell, laughing.

"Your cousin is handsome, and thinks so. He is uneasy de sa personne. He has not seen the world yet. Has he genius? Has he suffered? A lady, a little woman in rumpled satin and velvet shoes - a Miss Pybus-came here, and said he has suffered. I, too, have suffered, and you, Laura, has your heart ever been touched?"

Laura said "No!" but perhaps blushed a little at the idea or the question, so that the other said, —

"Ah, Laura! I see it all. It is the beau cousin. Tell me everything. I already love you as a sister." "You are very kind," said Miss Bell, smiling, "and -and it must be owned that it is a very sudden attachment.”

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"All attachments are so. It is electricity taneity. It is instantaneous. I knew I should love you from the moment I saw you. Do you not feel it yourself?"

"Not yet," said Laura; "but I dare say I shall if I try."

"Call me by my name, then."

"But I don't know it," Laura cried out.

"My name is Blanche

Call me by it."

- is n't it a pretty name?

"Blanche-it is very pretty, indeed."

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