A PAIR OF BLUE EYES.
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Elfride gave a little toss.
'Xow, don't writhe
so -^vlien I attempt
to carry you.' '
I can't help
'
Then submit
it.'
quietly.'
'I don't care, I don't care,' she
mured
in
mur-
languid tones and ^^ith closed
eyes.
He turret,
took her into his arms, entered the
and with slow and cautious
descended round and round.
steps
Then, with
the gentleness of a nursing mother, he at-
During
tended to the cut on her arm.
his-
progress through the operations of wij)ing it
and binding
its
it
up anew, her
face
changed
aspect from pained indifference to some-
thing like bashful interest, interspersed with small tremors and shudders of a trifling kind.
In the centre of each pale cheek a small red spot the its
size
appearance,
larger.
of a wafer had
and
continued
now made to
groAv
Elfride momentarily expected a re-
