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"HONEY"

BY THE SAME AUTHOR

COMIN' THRO' THE RYE

BAM WILDFIRE

BECKY

CINDERS

BY

HELEN (MATHERS) Raves.

METHUEN & CO.

36 ESSEX STREET W.C.

LONDON

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"HONEY"

CHAPTER I

"All the bodies of the universe are allied by sympathies or natural antipathies."

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"Miss Honeybel Bury"

LOOKED at her, startled at the unsuit

ability of her name, for there was honey neither in her glance nor on her lips, and beauty at that moment she had none, unless she had deliberately veiled it with the sullenness that enveloped her as with a cloud.

"You do not wish to dance?" I said, though the nod she had thrown at me was in the affirmative; and then I glanced down at her, and saw that she was trembling, but if from temper or emotion, I could not tell.

"I would like," she muttered, "to be shut up in a room lined with looking-glasses, and

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