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150 a genuine motive for charity. Their little plot would last what it could—it would be a part of their amusement to make it last. Even if it should be but a thing of a day, there would have been always so much gained. But they would be ingenious, they would find ways, they would have no end of sport.

"You must be ingenious; I can't," said Mary. "If people scarcely ever see us together, they'll guess we're trying to humbug them."

"But they will see us together. We are together. We've been together—I mean we've seen a lot of each other—all our lives."

"Ah, not that way!"

"Oh, trust me to work it right!" cried the young man, whose imagination had now evidently begun to glow in the air of their pious fraud.

"You'll find it a dreadful bore," said Mary Gosselin.

"Then I'll drop it, don't you see? And you'll drop it, of course, the moment you've had enough," Lord Beaupré punctually