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A PAIR OF friend,

43

15LUE EYES.

and wished she had listened more Then,

attentively.

pulling the

still

leaf,

she would blush at some fancied mortificathat

tion

would accrue

her from his

to

words Avhen they met, in consequence of her rudeness, as she

now

considered

it,

in

'STOting to him.

The next development tions

of her medita-

was into the subject of what

man's personal appearance might be

he

tall or short,

dark or

fair,

this

—was

gay or grim ?

She would have asked Mrs. Swancourt, but for

the

risk

she might thereby incur of

some teasing remark being returned. mately, Elfride would say,

plague that reviewer

me

to

is

'

Ulti-

what a

0,

and turn

I'

her face to where she imagined India

and murmur

to herself,

'

Ah,

band, what are you doing see,

where are you

Behind that

hill,

my

little

now?

—south,

east,

ever so far behind

Let

lay,

hus-

me

where !'

?