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206 "How very pretty," exclaimed she, "how kind you are to think of me. I shall take such care of it for your sake."

"I will bring you a chain from Trinchinopoly when I come back, but you will have a long time to wait for it."

Fanny's eyes filled with tears, and George felt inclined to follow her example, but this the dignity of his uniform farbade, and bidding "God bless you, dearest Fanny," in a broken voice, he hurried to the door and was gone while she was yet standing in the middle of the room, with the chain in her hand; a step in the passage aroused her, and she ran into her own apartment, where she first cried her eyes red, and then exhausted her stock of rosewater in effacing the traces of tears. Time past on, and she heard her name called more than once before she obeyed the summons. Never had she felt so little inclined for exertion. Still, when she entered the room, it was not in the nature of a girl of sixteen to be insensible to the praises bestowed on her