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"No, don't be too sure; it will depend upon whether you say 'yes, or 'no, to my question. We were wondering something about you." Harwin's heart sank, though he returned her smile and her glance with interest. For there were questions she might ask which would inconvenience him, but they should not embarrass him. "We were wondering," pursued Katie, "if you had ever been presented. Have you?"
As the sun breaks out from a heavy cloud, the light returned to Harwin's blue eyes. "Yes," he said, "four years ago. I went to court with my uncle, Sir Rydal Harwin, and his majesty was gracious enough to nod in answer to my profound reverence." "It was a very brilliant scene, I am sure, and very interesting."
"But then you think that you may yet win her," he said. "Who knows?" and he watched his listener closely, "Women are strange," he added. "She'd be flattered by your having been a scamp for her sake; she is not like the other one." He saw the light flash into Harwin's eyes and leave its bright mark along his cheek, and he smiled. "But you never shall," he said. "You might, but you never shall.
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