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time during the evening, and J will lead ah with him. I know he will enjoy it. ‘Of conrse, I will do anything you wish,” Mr Gordon returned ; ‘‘and,” he added, with a grave tenderness in his tones, ‘you ought to have a tong, long life of happiness, my Ruby, for you are always doing something for the pleasure of other peaple.” : He bent to kiss hor softly on the lips again, and thon went to attend to some duty. Walter came early, as he had promised ; nothing avould have inilucod him to forego the pleasure of that first quadrille ; and Ruby greeted him with a smile and flush of welcome. She passed him her tablets, after a moment, and ho wrote her name against the first quadrile. “ May | bog another ?” he asked, hending an eager fook tpon her, “Vos, indeed ; if vou like,” sho answered coidially, and he chore one later on in the evening, She scon moved away to speak with other guests, but his eves followed her wherever she went: the gleam of that pure Sily, the sheon of that silken dress, made his heart. thrill with her every movement. “T love her! 1 love her! bub will the: time ever come when I shail dave say it to her and try to wia her?” he murmured to himself. Edmund Carpenter also prosented him- self at a seasonable hour, and, when the signal was given to repair to the room for dancing, he approached Ruby, and draw- ing her hand throngh his arm, with the most complacent assurance remarked : * Miss Ruby, you and 1 must open this ball together.” comidbootss.com