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Confidence

CHAPTER XIII
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Let me express my gratitude, in advance, for the rest of the time, till he comes back.
That 's more responsibility than you bargained for," she said, with a little nervous laugh.
"Yes, it 's more than I bargained for.

I am thinking of going away." Mrs.Vivian almost gave a little jump, and then she paused on the Baden cobble-stones, looking up at him.
"If you must go, Mr.Longueville--don't sacrifice yourself!" The exclamation fell upon Bernard's ear with a certain softly mocking cadence which was sufficient, however, to make this organ tingle.
"Oh, after all, you know," he said, as they walked on--"after all, you know, I am not like Wright--I have no business." He walked with the ladies to the door of their lodging.

Angela kept always in front.

She stood there, however, at the little confectioner's window until the others came up.

She let her mother pass in, and then she said to Bernard, looking at him-- "Shall I see you again ?" "Some time, I hope." "I mean--are you going away ?" Bernard looked for a moment at a little pink sugar cherub--a species of Cupid, with a gilded bow--which figured among the pastry-cook's enticements.


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