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DICK CALLS AT THE SCHOOL.
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cost him so many bitter moments and three sleepless nights:—

'Good-morning, Miss Day.'

'Good-morning, Mr. Dewy.'

The gate was closed; she was gone; and Dick was standing outside, unchanged in his condition from what he had been before he called. Of course Angel was not to blame—a young woman living alone in a house could not ask him indoors unless she had known him better—he should have kept her outside. He wished that before he called he had realised more fully than he did the pleasure of being about to call; and turned away.

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