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"Has anything gone wrong?" she asked aloud.


CHAPTER VII.

"Has anything gone wrong?" There was so much of interest and sympathy in
her tone, as Joe put the simple question, that John turned and looked into
her face. The magic of moonlight softens the hardest features, makes
interest look like friendship, and friendship like love; but it can harden
too at times, and make a human face look like carved stone.
"No, there is nothing wrong," John answered presently; "what made you
think so?"
"You spoke a little regretfully," answered Joe.
"Did I? I did not mean to. Perhaps one is less gay and less hopeful at
some times than at others. It has nothing to do with success or failure."
"I know," answered Joe. "One can be dreadfully depressed when one is
enjoying one's self to any extent. But I should not have thought you were
that sort of person. You seem always the same."
"I try to be. That is the great difference between people who live to work
and people who live to amuse and be amused.


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