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"Do you think us good company?" asked Gertrude.
"Company for a king!"
Gertrude was silent a moment; and then, "There must be a thousand different ways of being dreary," she said; "and sometimes I think we make use of them all."
Felix stood up quickly, holding up his hand. "If you could only keep that look on your face for half-an-hour—while I catch it!" he said. "It is uncommonly handsome."
"To look handsome for half-an-hour—that is a great deal to ask of me," she answered.
"It would be the portrait of a young woman who has taken some vow, some
