Book Excerpt: efirst time a mood of solemnity, seeing that their intercourse had alwaysbefore been in the vein of pleasantry and badinage common to the firststages of courtships. This new experience appeared to dignify theirrelation, and weave them together with a new strand. At length she said--"Why didn't you go after poor George and cheer him up instead of goinghome with me? Anybody could have done that.""No doubt," replied Henry, seriously; "but, if I'd left anybody else todo it, I should have needed cheering up as much as George does.""Dear me," she exclaimed, as a little smile, not exactly of vexation, curved her lips under cover of the darkness, "you take a mostunwarrantable liberty in being jealous of me. I never gave you noranybody else any right to be, and I won't have it!""Very well. It shall be just as you say," he replied. The sarcastichumility of his tone made her laugh in spite of herself, and sheimmediately changed the subject, demanding--"Where is Laura to-night?""She's atRead Mor
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