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A PAIR OF BLUE EYES. The

only?

you

37

you are known the more

less

are thought of/ '

Yes

you might do

Elfride

Her

one

seemed

to

set

desire

that.'

work there and for

the

last

then.

fortnight

As happens

likely to be realised.

with sensitive and secluded minds, a continual dwelling

upon the subject had mag-

nified to colossal proportions the space she

assumed herself to occupy or to have occupied in the occult

and

at night she

critic's

mind.

At noon

had been pestering

herself

with endeavours to perceive more distinctly his conception of her as a

woman, apart

from an authoress: whether he spised her less of

whether he thought more or

her than of ordinary young

who never ventured cism at

really de-

all.

Now

women

into the fire of criti-

she would have the

faction of feeling that at

satis-

any rate he knew

her true intent in crossing his path, and

annoying him so by her performance, and be taught perhaps to despise

it

a

little less.