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without stopping why when they did it. I don't know
what I like she said or at least I don't know when I
would like to have lived. I suppose life is very much
The Little Doves
alike. You too young to be [inning?] is Miss Saunders
Ned said Now I know ever so many things s that you like
you like to dance & to playt tennis & to ride & ever so many
other things & you do them all well. She flushed & said
hastily yes I like to do anything that is doing but I
hate to have to stop & talk about them I don't know how.
Dear me what a hopeless sort of girl thought Harry but
very exceptional. It isn't that I wouldn't like [her?] or that
I don't like to hear other people but somehow I can't. She
seemed to feel so sorry about it that Ned tried to do all he
could to [contrive?] take away the feeling though thinking all the time
that she was greatly to be pitied for not being able to get
outside herself. Chance brought him near her severaltimes
that evening & he found that he had considerably more to say
to her than usual & she in return talked a remarkable
amount for her. She asked told him that she & [Jim?] would be glad
to have him come up as he used to do three or four years
before & Ned made up his mind that he would go for the
sake of studying her if nothing else. I don't believe the fellow
she is engaged to half understands her he said to
himself. [?] Before long Mrs Merriam & May were
interrupted by the entrance of Mr Merriam. He was a