I have never done you a single kindness, and why should you be so kind to me ?" A factitious reply had been again upon his lips, but it was again suspended, and he looked at her with an arrested eye.

The truth was, that as she now stood--excited, wild, and honest as the day--her alluring beauty bore out so fully the epithets he had bestowed upon it that he was quite startled at his temerity in advancing them as false.

He said mechanically, "Ah, why ?" and continued to look at her.
"And my workfolk see me following you about the field, and are wondering.

Oh, this is dreadful!" she went on, unconscious of the transmutation she was effecting.
"I did not quite mean you to accept it at first, for it was my one poor patent of nobility," he broke out, bluntly; "but, upon my soul, I wish you would now.

Without any shamming, come! Don't deny me the happiness of wearing it for my sake?
But you are too lovely even to care to be kind as others are." "No, no; don't say so! I have reasons for reserve which I cannot explain." "Let it be, then, let it be," he said, receiving back the watch at last; "I must be leaving you now.