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106 GORDON WARREN’S PUPIL. jurisdiction. He has been teaching me to row on the lake, and I’ve learned how implacable he is.” ‘‘Tt is necessary to be that with one so utterly ignorant and careless of danger as yourself, Miss Hilary,” replied Warren, with an amused expression, as his quiet eye glanced over the slight, girlish form, and lingered half patronizingly on her sweet, candid face, where every feel- ing of her free heart played fearlessly. ‘«Somehow it is hard to fancy that any danger can exist where you are, Mr. Warren, you seem so entirely equal to everything.” ‘“There’s a most unequivocal tribute to your conceit, Gordon,” said Mr. Croft. ‘‘Indeed I did not intend to convey the idea that he thinks himself so all-sufficient, but that he appears so to other people,” protested Faith, flushing brightly at the implication attributed to her remark. ‘‘Have no fear that I shall misinterpret your kind words, Miss Hilary; nor does your guardian, but he wants you to take some lessons in repartee. You are far too honest and sincere for a society belle, and we must teach you how to say what you don’t mean, and to disguise what you do mean.” | ‘For shame!” cried Faith, ruefully. ‘‘ You are not in earnest about that, I know.” . “Ask Mrs. Croft if I have not stated the proposition most exactly,” said Warren, with:his half-cynical smile, as Eomicbooks:¢o =|