A PAIR OF BLUE EYES.
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tion at being beaten time after time
she herself ^Yas the aggressor.
when
Having
for
two or three years enjoyed the reputation throuofhout the globe of her father's brain
which almost constituted her
— of being was
entire
world
an excellent player, this fiasco
intolerable
for unfortunately the per-
son most doo^D^ed in the belief in a false reputation
who it is
always that one, the possessor,
is
has the best means of knowing that not true.
In bed no sleep came to soothe her; that gentle thing being the very middle-of-
summer away
friend
in
this
respect
of flying
at the merest troublous cloud.
lying awake
till
two She
to strike her.
an idea seemed
o'clock,
softly arose, got a light,
and fetched a Chess Praxis from the Returning and
After
sitting
up
library.
in bed, she dili-
gently studied the volume
till
the clock
and her eyelids
felt
thick and
struck
heavy.
five,
She then extinguished the light
and lay down again.
