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Show GIVE AND TAKE. V "Baron," she said, laughing, "you appear to bo of such an ambiguous age! Tell me, I pray you (ril promise to keep the secret) how old you really are." "Milady," he answered, bending to whisper, "I am just old enough 1o know enough to stop at that which one may not say to a married woman!" "So!" she said, laughing still; and then she closed her fan, and then she opened her fan. "And you, Milady," he went on, after a minute's min-ute's contemplation .of the evident agitation of her fan "you appear so very young! Tell me, I pray you (I'll promise to keep the secret) how long have you been married?" "How long!" she said, flashing her eyes suddenly sud-denly upward into his; "oh, just long enough to beg you not to know enough to stop at that which one may not say to a married woman!" Town Topics. |