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of paper could have been slipped between us; and I could feel her heart only just outside my own, her existence going on so close to mine, that I was aware of every breath in it. A flit is made to the bedroom—a hat and a cloak put on—and I no more dare to touch her than—' Thought failed him, and he returned to life.

But this was an endurable misery in comparison with what followed. Mr. Shinar and his watch-chain, taking the intrusive advantage that ardent males who are going homeward along the same road as a pretty young female always do take of that circumstance, came forward to assure Fancy—with a total disregard of Dick's emotions, and in tones which were certainly not frigid—that he (Shinar) was not the man to go to bed before seeing his Lady Fair safe within her own door—not he: nobody should say he was that;—and that he would

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