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Dora Thorne by Charlotte M. (Charlotte Monica) Brame
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grand houses came, she would say, "Go alone, Ronald; if I am with
you they are sure to ask me ever so many questions which I can
not answer; then you will be vexed with me, and I shall be
ashamed of my ignorance."

"Why do you not learn?" Ronald would ask, disarmed by her sweet
humility.

"I can not," said Dora, shaking her pretty head. "The only
lesson I ever learned in my life was how to love you."

"You have learned that by heart," replied Ronald. Then he would
kiss her pitiful little face and go without her.

By slow degrees it became a settled rule that Dora should stay at
home and Ronald go out. He had no scruples in leaving her--she
never objected; her face was always smiling and bright when he
went away, and the same when he returned. He said to himself
that Dora was happier at home than elsewhere, that fine ladies
frightened her and made her unhappy.

Their ways in life, now became separate and distinct, Ronald
going more than ever into society, Dora clinging more to the safe
shelter of home.

But society was expensive in two ways--not only from the outlay
in dress and other necessaries, but in the time taken from work.
There were many days when Ronald never went near his studio, and
only returned home late in the evening to leave early in the
morning. He was only human, this young hero who had sacrificed
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