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"Let hiht;

and then, as a keen pang of shame and disappointment swept over her,

she laid her head for a rass and wept bitterly "He

must have seen what I expected and I care uard herself at every point and do all that

lay in her power to further Lucy's interests, "He will thus see how

little I really care," she thought, and, lifting up her head, she tore

in frag, but which she could not

now place on the head of her rival

Mr Leighton was flirting terribly with her when she joined the party

assembled around the table, and he never once looked at Anna, though

he saw that her plate ell supplied with the best of everything,

and when at one draught she drained her glass of ice-water, he quietly