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Frank's case was all the more painful because he had no one in particular to fix his jealousy upon So hiood farht Marie was fond of hione, and she had been just as kind to the next boy The far for Marie; Frank couldn't find one so surly that he would not make an effort to please her At the bottoive up his grudge, his ould corudge was fundaiven it up if he had tried Perhaps he gothi loved If he could once have ht have relented and raised her from the dust But she had never humbled herself In the first days of their love she had been his slave; she had adan to bully her and to be unjust, she began to draay; at first in tearful aust The distance between theht theether The spark of her life went so to surprise it He knew that so to live upon, for she was not a wo He wanted to prove to hi he felt What did she hide in her heart? Where did it go? Even Frank had his churlish delicacies; he never reminded her of how rateful to hi to the French boys, Amedee called Emil to the back of the roo to play a joke on the girls At eleven o'clock, Ao up to the switchboard in the vestibule and turn off the electric lights, and every boy would have a chance to kiss his sweetheart before Father Duchesne could find his way up the stairs to turn the current on again The only difficulty was the candle in Marie's tent; perhaps, as E out the candle Emil said he would undertake to do that