Both of these men are in love with Maruja; or, worse than that, they firmly believe her to be in love with THEM." "But Miss Maruja is the eldest daughter of our hostess, is she not ?" said the Scotchman; "and I understood from one of the young ladies that the Captain had come down from the Fort particularly to pay court to Miss Amita, the beauty." "Possibly.

But that wouldn't prevent Maruja from flirting with him." "Eh! but are you not mistaken, Mr.Raymond?
Certainly a more quiet, modest, and demure young lassie I never met." "That's because she sat out two waltzes with you, and let you do the talking, while she simply listened." The elder man's fresh color for an instant heightened, but he recovered himself with a good-humored laugh.

"Likely--likely.

She's a capital good listener." "You're not the first man that found her eloquent.

Stanton, your banking friend, who never talks of anything but mines and stocks, says she's the only woman who has any conversation; and we can all swear that she never said two words to him the whole time she sat next to him at dinner.