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some tea as well as myself too, because you must be tired.'

'Well, let me have some with you then. I was denied once before, if you recollect, Fancy.'

'Yes, yes, never mind! And it seems unfriendly of me now, but I don't know what to do.'

'It shall be as you say, then,' said Dick, beginning to retreat with a dissatisfied wrinkling of face, and giving a farewell glance at the cosy tea-tray.

'But you don't see how it is, Dick, when you speak like that,' she said, with more earnestness than she had ever shown before. 'You do know, that even if I care very much for you, I must remember that I have a difficult position to maintain. The vicar would not like me, as his school-mistress, to indulge in tête-à-têtes anywhere with anybody.'

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