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INTO TEMPTATION.
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He looked rather disappointed at not being invited round to the door. She left her seated position and bent herself downwards, but not even by standing on the plinth was it possible for Dick to get his mouth into contact with hers as she held it. By great exertion she might have reached a little lower; but then she would have exposed her head to the rain.

'Never mind, Dick; kiss my hand,' she said, flinging it down to him. 'Now, good-bye.'

'Good-bye!'

He walked slowly away, turning and turning again to look at her till he was out of sight. During the retreat she said to herself, almost involuntarily, and still conscious. of that morning's triumph,

'I like Dick, and I love him; but how poor and mean a man looks in the rain, with no umbrella, and wet through!'

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