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CHAPTER XIV

A. 1. Does there exist a man who has not considered himself a fool at least once in his life? 2. I had seen that fact for a long time past. 3. She is anxious to marry but she is sorry to leave Pavol. 4. Let us not speak of it 5. What did she reproach him with? 6. He wishes that she should see him before giving a défini te answer. 7 Let us act wisely. 8. She said a hundred pleasant things to me. 9. How we enjoy ed ourselves the other day! 10. She ran to get what she needed. 11. An idea has just corne to me. 12. He who is gifted with energy is not always ignorant of timidity.

B. She had a ready toague when she wished, but she com-

pletely upset this suitor by her silence. On the following day she talked without stopping, having studied her subject until midnight. What she said was not very encouraging, but when her uncle got angry she was not in the least moved, and said ihat when she was married she would do as she liked, and not as her husband liked, and that where there's a will there's a way.

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