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So Bertie had declared love, and won an acknowledgment from Ethel that his love was returned.
"Ethel," he said, and the name sounded wonderfully sweet as he dwelt upon it with loving tenderness, "Ethel, I must go to the earl and ask for my pearl of price. Shall I go to-morrow?"