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To urge on them Beauty's example.,"No,"—slowly,—"I do not. If I did, I should not love you as—as I do.","Oh yes you will," spoke a voice, seemingly above their heads.,"Brown night retires; young day pours in apace,,“What’d you sneak off for like that?” he said sneeringly. “Going back to tell the boss you caught me gambling?”,"And," Maddoc resumed, "do you happen to know that he made a will, leaving all he possessed to you?",The boy shook his head. "I dunno; them cricks shouldn't be that way; they're all spring-fed. Maybe you know?" looking straight into Hinter's eyes.,Maurice shook his head. "It's maybe a cow!" he guessed hopefully.,The blandishments of soda water fountains, candy stores, and other boyish temptations, found no victim in Billy. But if Mr. Cooper, the tinshop man, had driven hard bargains he would have bankrupted the boy. As it was his weekly allowance suffered in spite of Mr. Cooper’s generosity and Billy’s free access to a rich scrap heap at the rear of the big shop where everything, one would say, in tin and iron was made, from well pipe, tanks, and boilers, to tin wings for Edith’s fairies in the opera.,Etwald put the question with the greatest calmness, stared steadily at the young man, and waited for the reply, which he knew would be difficult to make.,"I secreted my rings and some rubbish, and made signs with a mad face to Mr Lawrence to come and look at the treasure I had hidden. I took my meals on the deck crouching like an animal. I would shriek with laughter which had nothing to do with what was said. A later and most difficult effort was to believe that I was Mrs Siddons.",CINDERELLA;OR, THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER.