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young as you. I hope to take both you and Agnes to a new and purer land."
"Soon we leave?" she repeated, "oh, I forgot; but I don't want to, I like it here."
"Like it? I thought you hated Sceaux?"
"Yes, I did—but—"
"But, what?"
"But, nothing, I just like it—now," she insisted illogically.
"Who is this young man, Charles?" asked Agnes when her sister had gone. And he told her.
