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weveoue “Tam very impatient to see them, and I shall make Robert show them to me the first thing tomorrow. — Perhaps,” she added, with a9 coquettish little toss of her, bright head, ‘*I may not be exactly suited with the arrangement of my rooms. Do you suppose the great architect could be prevailed upon to make any changes at my suggestion ?” JT am sure he would be very glad to please you, if he could do so,” Walter re- aponded, his whole face aglow with adrira- tion, for she wae 80 pretty, so sweet, and 80 nataral in hor rnanner that it was a delight to watch her. ' * Ahon! Miss Ruby, I am afraid that we shall lose our first quadrille if we linger,” Edmund Carpenter here interposed. He was raging inwardly that Walter should presume to stand there se com- posetlly and converse with the young girl, and he abrupth ee between them, while he cast a dark look of jealous anger at the young man. . Ruby lifted a pair of wondering cyes to her escort af this rudeness, and she saw at oneco that he disliked her new acqusint- ance. But she was inclined to resent this surly tveatment of 6 gontleman’in her brother's house. “1 suppose it is time for us to go,” she suid, a trifle coldly, aud drawing her slioht figure more erect; then sho added, more cordially than she had yet spoken + “Good-night, Mr Richardson, I ho pe I shall inect you again, soon, then I will tell you how I like the plans,” and with a friendly smile and nod, she took Mr Car- penter’s proffered arm and passed out to the errriage which stood waiting for them, while our young architect went back to his hunhle room in Mr Wayland’s modest house, taking with him g gleam of sunehine that brightened many a subsequent day. (To be Continued. ) er a ere micoolks.com