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Neil, on the contrary, forgave her fully for the annoyance he had felt, and immediately after breakfast the next morning he started for Mrs. Buncher's. Bessie was trying on the hat when he entered. She had received the box only a few moments before, and had readily guessed that Neil was the donor, and had in part divined his motive.
But he did not know of it, and at a comparatively early hour next morning he was at Mrs. Buncher's, where Bessie greeted him with her sweetest smile and thanked him again for all he had done for them. "Don't speak of it, I beg; it is so very little, I only wish there was really something I could do to prove my willingness to serve you," he said.
Buncher's parlor than in that elegantly furnished boudoir, and when the hour for driving came, and his mother complained of a headache, and asked him to go with Blanche, he consented readily, but suggested that she leave her poodle at home, as one puppy was enough for her, he said.
Buncher's lodgings, and she said to him, as she withdrew her hand and put on her mended gloves: "You had better not; father and I are out so much that we might not be home, and you would have your trouble for nothing. Good-by again." She took her father's arm and walked away, while Jack Trevellian stood looking after her and thinking to himself: "That girl has the loveliest face I ever saw.
How sorry he was now that he had wounded Bessie so unnecessarily, and how well he understood from actual experience the poverty which could only afford such apartments as Mrs. Buncher's!
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