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A PAIR OF BLUE EYES.

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Certainly

Though adopted

nothing

more

natural.

am afraid it is not the plan by women of the world after a I

defeat.'

'Why, pray?'

Because they know that

overcomino;

is

as

good

as

skill in efFacino^ recollection

of being overcome, and turn their attention to that entirely.'

am wrong

again, of course.'

'

I

'

Perhaps your wrong

than their '

more pleasing

right.'

I don't quite

that, or

is

know whether you mean

whether you are laughing

at me,'

she said, looking doubtingly at him, yet inclining to accept the pretation.

'

vanity in

me

Well,

you

if

I

am

am

it

a match for you.

do, I say that vanity

is

no

case.'

Well, perhaps not.

a virtue.'

flattering inter-

almost sure you think

to think I

crime in such a

more

Though

it is

hardly