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A PAIR OF BLUE EYES.

82

She started up suddenly.

you

are doing

!'

she cried

I

^

know what

an angry colour

upon her cheeks, and her eyes indignant. '

You were

thinking; of lettino^

me van

to

please me!'

mind

don't

^I

owning

that

I

was,'

Knight responded phlegmatically, and appearing

own

her '

the

all

more

by

so

contrast with

turmoil.

But you must not

I won't

!

^

Very

'

No, that will not do

have

it.'

well.'

I insist

that

you

promise not to do any such absurd thing.

me

It is insulting '

Very

well,

!'

madam.

such absurd thing.

'That

proudly

is

to

You

I

shall not win.'

be proved,' she returned

and the play went

Nothing

is

won't do any

on.

noAV heard but the ticking of

a quaint old timepiece on the

Ten minutes

bookcase.

her knight a very

summit of a

pass; he captures

she takes his knight, and looks

Rhadamanthus.