`` Have I said anything that troubles you ? '' `` No , Miss Lillian . I 'm only thinking . '' `` Then I wish you would n't think , for you get a great wrinkle in your forehead , your eyes grow almost black , and your mouth looks fierce . You are a very odd person , Paul ; one minute as gay as any boy , and the next as grave and stern as a man with a deal of work to do . '' `` I have got a deal of work to do , so no wonder I look old and grim . '' `` What work , Paul ? '' `` To make my fortune and win my lady . '' When Paul spoke in that tone and wore that look , Lillian felt as if they had changed places , and he was the master and she the servant . She wondered over this in her childish mind , but proud and willful as she was , she liked it , and obeyed him with unusual meekness when he suggested that it was time to return . As he rode silently beside her , she stole covert glances at him from under her wide hat brim , and studied his unconscious face as she had never done before . His lips moved now and then but uttered no audible sound , his black brows were knit , and once his hand went to his breast as if he thought of the little sweetheart whose picture lay there . He 's got a trouble . I wish he 'd tell me and let me help him if I can . I 'll make him show me that miniature someday , for I 'm interested in that girl , thought Lillian with a pensive sigh . As he held his hand for her little foot in dismounting her at the hall door , Paul seemed to have shaken off his grave mood , for he looked up and smiled at her with his blithest expression . But Lillian appeared to be the thoughtful one now and with an air of dignity , very pretty and becoming , thanked her young squire in a stately manner and swept into the house , looking tall and womanly in her flowing skirts . Paul laughed as he glanced after her and , flinging himself onto his horse , rode away to the stables at a reckless pace , as if to work off some emotion for which he could find no other vent . `` Here 's a letter for you , lad , all the way from some place in Italy . Who do you know there ? ''
XXXXX Bedford , as the boy came back .
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