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"Georgie" The Goddess Girl gave Georgie's hand a soft little squeeze; at least, I fancied so.

"Perhaps he is a bit too rapid in his experiments;" she smiled slyly at that disgraceful boy. "And I guess it's about time he found some one to make up his mind for him, permanently."

Her look and tone as she said this were delightful. But Georgie, wrapped up in his injury, dropped her hand to gaze with deep reproach at poor Anne, and Drusilla moved to her sister's side with a sudden impulse of tenderness. Anne, however, pushed her away and turned with a quick gesture of appeal to Georgie. But she might have spared herself that last humiliation. He only rammed his straw hat further over his moody eyes, plunged his hands into his pockets and strode off. And at the distance of a few yards he stopped and turned to look reproachfully at poor Anne.

"I hate a woman to be false," said he.

And I expect he did. 76