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A PAIR OF BLUE EYES.

54

by the

constraint of accident merely.

Xot

that I object to the accident.'

^Why do you

don't

you

afraid to question

intense curiosity to see literary Mr.

—I

mean,

"svhy

about things?' Elfride

feel so quiet

was half

object

Knight was

him

so,

what the like,

but her

inside of

kept her going

Knight certainly did not mind being

on.

frank

Instances of this trait in

her.

^^'ith

men who have warm feelings, but are reticent from habit, may be recalled by all "When thev find a listener who can of us. by no

possibility

make

use of them, rival

them, or condemn them, reserved and even

men

suspicious

of the world become frank,

keenly enjoying the inner side

of their

frankness.

'Why straint,'

I don't

he

be^i^innino^s, is

mind

re2:)lied,

'is

the accidental conbecause, in

making

a cliance limitation of direction

often better than absolute freedom.' 'I see

—that

derstood what

is,

all

I

should

if I quite

un-

those ireneraHties mean.'