A Plucky Girl

I mean to enjoy our scheme vastly."

Put them with the others, Westenra.

I had dropped on my knees now and taken both her hands in mine, and I spoke with great excitement, and even passion.

Don't stir for a moment

have a proposal to make.

I am your slave, your devoted slave, your own most loving girl, but don't, don't ask me to vegetate in the country. It would kill me – it would kill

Father would approve of this,

Why, a curate's wife could scarcely manage on it."

But have we nothing?" I replied. "Only my pension as your dear father's widow

did not appear to be any lack of money. I was well educated, partly in Paris and