Ruby's Reward — page 46: what you’re looking at

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* “Oh, he only dropped in to bring me a " book that we were talking about the other ‘day,” Ruby responded, but with a little , extra colour in her cheeks. “Tent it a trifle strange, petite, that you _ Should prefer his society. to that of others ,, hearer your own age? asked Mz Gordon, bending a searching glance upon the fair ; face that was sodear to him. “Tike people who talk sensibly to me, _, Robert,” she returned, with an expressive | ' shrug of her pretty shoulders. :,, ‘Sensibly 2” he echoed, in surprise. .-. “Yes, most of the young men whom * Ineet in society talk such nonsense.” “Sech as what, for instance ?” n Oil, aboub my hair, my eyes, my ‘pretty feet,’ and ‘lovely dancing,’ com- paring them with somebody clses imper- -lections, and all. manner of absurd chatter. ildespise flattery and compliments ” ~ “Oh, Ruby ! when you always come to -teto be told how pretty you look, before /Yot go anywhere, and seem to like it, too ! ztetorted her brother, roguishly. : “Well, of course,” she answered, laugh- sWagand blushing, “you love me, and you 4 always mean what you say.” . «.'Trae,” replied Mv Robert Gordon, with Aq, SmHused smile, while he was sure bee ave same could not be said_of many of bev admirers; “ but how docs Mr Carpenter’s :conversati fer ?”? sfnversation differ” | copnfcngotancagn