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A PAIR OF BLUE EYES.
-which added to the tionship, a
nothing
The
mesh
complication of rela-
that her stepmother
knew
of.
identification
luiight's attractions
scarcely heightened
now, though a twelve-
month ago she would only have cared
him
to
for the
interest he possessed as
Stephen's friend.
Fortunately for Knight's
see
advent,
such a reason for welcome had
only begun to be awkward to her at a time when the interest he had acquired on
own account made
his
it
no longer neces-
sar}-.
These coincidences, in
common
with
all
relating to him, tended to keep Elfride's
inind upon the stretch concerning Knight.
As was her custom when upon
the horns of
a dilemma, she walked off by herself among the laurel-bushes, and there, standing
and from
splitting
up a
its stalk,
leaf without
still
removing
it
fetched back recollections of
Stephen's frequent words in praise of his
