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←A PAIR OF BLUE EYES.

Elfride, in her turn,

-svas

not particularly

attending to his words at this moment.

She had, unconsciously any point

seizing

to herself, a

in the

remarks of an

terlocutor which interested her,

ing upon

own

way of in-

and dwell-

and thinking thoughts of her

it,

thereupon, totally oblivious of

he might say in continuation.

all

On

that

such

occasions she artlessly surveyed the person

speaking, and then there was a time for a

Her eyes seemed

painter.

and past you, future

you were

then, into

your

and past your future into your

eternity

as

to look at you,

—not

reading

unused, unconscious

way

but gazing in an

— her

mind

still

original thought.

clinging to

its

This

how

is

it,

she was looking at Knight.

Suddenly Elfride became conscious of

what she was doing, and was painfully confused. '

What were you

so intent

upon

in

me 7

he inquired.

^As

far

as

I

was thinking of you at