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 lips that first taught her to err, how will such counsel prevail?" "Why take your picture from her?" "To give it to the only friend I have left." "I shall send it her again." "She will only laugh at you." "I had rather be the cause of her laughter, than of her tears." "Fear not: she is not prone to weeping;" but perhaps, he continued in a tone of pique, "you would wish to give me back also, as well as the portrait." "Oh never—never." This was Lady Avondale's answer; and Lord Glenarvon was satisfied.