A PAIR OF BLUE EYES.
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your great head.
You
should have strictly
forbidden her to play again.'
In truth, the essayist's experience of the nature of young -women was far
knowledge of them
sive than his abstract
led himself
and others
less exten-
He could
to believe.
pack them into sentences
like a
workman,
but empirically was nowhere. 'I
am
indeed
Knight, feeling
sorry,' said
even more than he expressed.
young lady knows
the
'
But
what
best
surely,
is
good
for her?' '
Bless you, that's just
know.
what she doesn't
She never thinks of such things,
does she, Christopher?
Her
and I
father
have to command her and keep her in order, as
you would a
child.
She
will say things
worthy of a French epigrammatist, and act like a robin in a greenhouse.
we
will send for Dr.
Granson
But
— there
I
think
can be
no harm.'
A man
was straightway dispatched on
horseback to Stranton, and the gentleman
