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ON HIS WAY THROUGH THE WORLD 345<br />

during a stupid sermon, with an audible remark perhaps to that<br />

effect, and as if it were a matter of course that he should go. If<br />

the company bored him at dinner, he would go to sleep in the most<br />

unaffected manner. At home we were always kept in a pleasant<br />

state of anxiety, not only by what he did and said, but by the idea<br />

of what he might do or say next. He did not go to sleep at<br />

Madame's boarding-house, preferring to keep his eyes open to look<br />

at pretty Charlotte's. And were there ever such sapphires as his ?<br />

she thought. And hers ? Ah ! if they have tears to shed, I hope<br />

a kind fate will dry them quickly !

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