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Doris Leighton's lashes drooped till her eyes were a narrow line of inscrutable blue.,"I saw you in the looking glass!" she cried gleefully. "You needn't think you can surprise us, young lady!","Pardon me, doctor," said Maurice, stiffly. "I mention no names.","Do you trust that man, my boy?" he asked, gravely.,"It doesn't seem to come right," said Patricia, rumpling her hair with the back of one soiled hand and staring ruefully at the lumpy, meaningless group of two stiff figures in modeling-wax that stood stolidly on a thick little board on top of the piano stool.,"I studied with Bruce Haydon last summer," she said. "He got me in here.",The doors of the exhibition room were pushed quickly open as Mr. Benton led the expectant band of students in for their first sight of the prize designs, and Patricia's heart beat fast with the thrilling hope that Elinor's might be among the first in rank.,But I sobbed some more. I like him when his eyes come out from under his bushy brows and are all tender and full of sorry for us.,Etwald shook his head and smiled.,"I guess you won't have to chloroform us to drag us there this time," she retorted. "I'm glad we're presentable, anyway. Aren't you thankful I made you put on your best duds, Norn? There's nothing like being contented when one feeds, and I couldn't partake of the stalled ox with any satisfaction in my old school rags.","I don't think so, my boy. Isabella loved Maurice, and to marry him she would have rebelled against her mother. But I daresay if you become engaged to her, Etwald will remove you also from his path.",Patricia smiled at Elinor's fervid response and Judith's calm approval, but she uttered never a word, though Bruce looked at her inquiringly..