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Updated: May 11, 2025
Dab looked at his friend for a moment in blank amazement, and then the truth broke upon him for the first time. "Oh, I see! You never caught any crabs. Well, just you lock up your jewellery-box, and I'll show you."
The few years of partial peace had passed; she knew that the hour drew near when the long-dreaded struggle must begin, and, hopeless of averting it, quietly waited for the storm to break. Dropping the ring in her jewellery-box, she turned the key, and just then her father's voice rang through the house. "Irene! the carriage is coming up the avenue."
She saw her trunks consigned to the porter, listened to a brief conversation between Dr. and her father, and after a hasty embrace and half-dozen words, watched the tall, soldierly form re-enter the carriage. Then she went slowly up the broad stairway to her cell-like room, and with dry eyes unpacked her clothes, locked up the ring in her jewellery-box, and prepared to resume her studies.
You know the way to your room; it is the same you occupied before you went to college. Good night; I hope you will rest well." She held out her hand carelessly; he took it eagerly, and holding it up to the light said, in a disappointed tone "Irene, where is my ring? Why are you not wearing it?" "It is in my jewellery-box.
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