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Out of her sphere - University Library

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MISS LAYTON MANAGES MATTERS. 163<br />

help, would expect him to be in the matter.<br />

Never mind ; they had asked for it. Beatey<br />

had turned to him at once in <strong>her</strong> need,<br />

showing, he considered, that he had not<br />

been very far from <strong>her</strong> thoughts while he<br />

was away, and he would have a good ex-<br />

cuse for hurrying down on the morrow, and<br />

most likely seeing a great deal <strong>of</strong> Beatey,<br />

and pressing that suit upon <strong>her</strong>, which, as<br />

he had been so imprudent as to urge it, he<br />

could hardly withdraw from now. He had<br />

no business to have proposed to Beatey,<br />

but as he had been weak enough to do so,<br />

the sooner he knew his fate the better.<br />

He would know it before he came back<br />

home.<br />

Then he dismissed even Beatey's bright<br />

face from his thoughts for a time, folding<br />

up the telegram very carefully, however<br />

—<br />

after all, was it not, in a manner, the first<br />

love letter he had ever had from Beatev ?<br />

he should always consider it that— and set<br />

11—2

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