"Do you know, Eva, I'm so sorry papa is only going to
stay two days here, and then I sha'n't see you again for
ever so long! If I stay with you, I'd try to be good, and
not be cross to Dodo, and so on. I don't mean to treat
Dodo ill; but, you know, I 've got such a quick temper.
I'm not really bad to him, though. I give him a picayune,
now and then; and you see he dresses well. I think, on
the whole, Dodo's pretty well off."

"Would you think you were well off, if there were not
one creature in the world near you to love you?"

"I? -- Well, of course not."

"And you have taken Dodo away from all the friends he
ever had, and now he has not a creature to love him; -- no-
body can be good that way."

"Well, I can't help it, as I know of. I can't get his
mother, and I can't love him myself, nor anybody else, as I
know of."

"Why can't you?" said Eva.

"Love Dodo! Why, Eva, you would n't have me! I
may like him well enough; but you don't love your ser-
vants."

"I do, indeed."

"How odd!"

"Don't the Bible say we must love everybody?"

"Oh, the Bible! To be sure, it says a great many such
things; but, then, nobody ever thinks of doing them, --
you know, Eva, nobody does."

Eva did not speak; her eyes were fixed and thoughtful,
for a few moments.

"At any rate," she said, "dear cousin, do love poor
Dodo, and be kind to him, for my sake!"

"I could love anything, for your sake, dear cousin; for I
really think you are the loveliest creature that I ever saw!"
And Henrique spoke with an earnestness that flushed his
handsome face. Eva received it with perfect simplicity,
without even a change of feature; merely saying, "I'm
glad you feel so, dear Henrique! I hope you will re-
member."

The dinner-bell put an end to the interview.

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