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196 "Your young ladies have left you alone," said he.

"Yes; they are occupied with more agreeable company."

"Then don't trouble youselfyourself [sic] to overtake them."

I slackened my pace; but next moment regretted having done so; my companion did not speak: and I had nothing in the world to say, and feared he might be in the same predicament. At length, however, he broke the pause by asking, with a certain quiet abruptness peculiar to himself if I liked flowers.

"Yes very much," I answered, "wild flowers especially."

"I like wild flowers," said he, "others I don't care about, because I have no particular associations connected with them—except one or two. What are are your favorite flowers

"Primroses, blue-bells, and heath-blossoms,"

"Not violets?"

"No, because, as you say, I have no particular associations connected with them; for there are no sweet violets among the hills and valleys round my home."

"It must be a great consolation to you, to have a home, Miss Grey," observed my