A PAIR OF BLUE
26
The
was devoured.
EYES.
letter
was
finally re-
perused and placed in her pocket.
What was Elfride,
which she had overlooked
hurry to open the
number of the cle
Also a newspaper for
this?
was the old
It
letter.
in her
Present^ containing the arti-
upon her book, forwarded
had been
as
requested. Elfride
had
hastily
read
through,
it
shrunk perceptibly smaller, and had then
gone with the paper in her hand to Mrs. Swancourt's dressing-room, at least
to
lighten
or
modify her vexation by a discrimi-
nating estimate from her stepmother.
She was now looking disconsolately out of the window. '
Never
Swan court,
sides,
is
child/
after a careful
matter indicated.
view
my
mind,
'
said
perusal of the
I don't see
that the re-
such a terrible one after
this time.
I'm sure the opening
enough
any book ever
Be-
all.
everybody has forgotten about
for
Mrs.
is
written.
it
by
good Just
