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before her ads her eyes downcast like a little nun, her whole expression a forlorn one. ‘‘Child, what is the matter?” ‘‘Nothing,” without lifting her eyes or changing her po- sition. “‘If you were anybody else, I should say you were sulky,” he said, bluntly. ‘‘What makes you so different from other girls? Why are you like nobody else?” She flashed a sad yet resentful glance at him from under her long lashes. ‘Am I so very different ?”’ «Ves, you are very singular. Don’t you know you are, Vashti ?” ‘‘T should not want to be like these girls here, sir,” she answered, with a backward toss of her graceful head. “Why not?” ‘*T don't like them.” ‘«To be sure; that is plainly to be seen; but why don’t you like them ?” “<'They are silly and vain ; they care more for a new dress than I do fora whole makdeoke and their hearts are as hard as the nether millstone.” ‘‘ Well, well,” he said, ina tone of raillery, ‘‘I think you must have given this subject some consideration. Vain and silly—well, well.” Some inward thought amused him; he laughed, and Vashti said : | **Did you want anything more, sir?” “No. What then ?” | ‘*Good-evening, sir ;” and with the words she vanished noiselessly from the room. The professor laughed again quietly, saying to himself, emphatically: = g A NEW WARDROBE. 121. (E(o) FG iW ne * T- agen _ % wk ; eS esr ago ek RS Anas wah be “a= —s | - “™% * . . *.« I. * ™ = Ebooks ‘ ° ene th 2 EPSACN » a dingy a bie ) - %. © a*s - “ay a * ao v's . edn s : ~~ pat aes hg oe f a oe < « -. a * $x ad lw be Oe ph Gh a ee 4 a “2 (e(e)