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A PAIR OF BLUE EYES.

16

window

driving by a furrier's

noon, and the sight

a sense of suffocation that

Ha-ha

get away.

He

!'

Swancourt,

^Miss

us

filled

I

this

all

with such

we were glad

public.

taking notes I

I

to

turned to Elfride.

have hardly seen or

spoken to you since your literary

made

after-

feat

was

had no idea a child was

down

at quiet Endelstow, or

should certainly have put myself and

court,

Swan-

upon our best behaviour.

friends

why

you give me a hint

didn't

!'

Elfride fluttered, blushed, laughed, said it

was nothing

to speak

Well, I think

of,

you were rather

by the Present;

treated

Writing a heavy review elegant

was

&c. &c.

trifle like

I

certainly

like that

do.

upon an

the Court of Kellyon Castle

absurd.'

What ?' said Elfride, opening Was I reviewed in the Present T '

'

unfairly

'

0, yes

was four or ^

No,

I

didn't

five

you

see

months ago

never saw

it.

it ?

her eyes.

Why,

it

!'

How

sorry I

am