Carefully he drew the stockings on, and she neither opposed nor assisted him.

When he had done, he looked up in her face with an expression that seemed to say--"There now! can't I do it properly ?" but did not speak.

She thanked him, rose, and went out, and Cosmo conducted her to the stable, where he heard the coachman, as she called him, not much better than a stable-boy, whistling.

She gave him her father's order.

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