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was that the tomb you alluded to as having sat on with him she breathed slowly yes she said the of his random shot startled knight though considering that all the other in the churchyard were upright upon which nobody could possibly sit it was not so wonderful did not even now go on with the explanation her lover wishe...
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knight s disappointment at finding himself second at s momentary and at her reluctance to be candid brought him to the verge of chapter o daughter of wasted with misery a habit of knight s when not immediately occupied with to walk by himself for half an hour or so between dinner and had become familiar to his friend...
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surgeon from i think it would be better to carry her in that instead of away from the town but is it not much farther to the first house we come to that way than to the or to the not much the stranger replied suppose we take her there then and i think the est way to do it would be thus if you don t mi d joining lands w...
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been because i loved you so and i feared feared to lose you since you are not given to confidence i want to ask some plain questions have i your permission yes she said and there came over her face a weary resignation say the words you can i will bear them there is a scandal in the air concerning you and i cannot eve...
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it were but for the day lightly as he had spoken such temporary many times before and she seemed to understand it as such knight had not the power to tell her plainly that he was going forever he hardly knew for certain that he was whether he should rush back again upon the current of an irresistible emotion or wheth...
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be your servant and live with you and not be sent away never to see you again i don t mind what it is except that no i cannot send you away i cannot god knows what dark future may arise out of this evening s work but i cannot send you away you must sit down and i will endeavor to collect my thoughts and see what had be...
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delight in a woman which had ended all in bitterness the spirit of self denial on which had c animated m old times announced itself as having departed ai a pair of blue eyes vith it had gone the self respect which had or the lack of self gratification poor little of having as formerly a place in his religion to assume ...
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was going by i m sure without thinking or expecting a nod from men of that class when i was in my working clothes you always will go into town in your working clothes beg ye to change how i will tis no use well however i were in my working clothes seed me ah mr smith a fine morning excellent weather for building says ...
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the visitors were gone and the sun was set and the moon s rays were just beginning to assert themselves upon the walls of the dwelling john smith and his wife sat down to the newspaper they had hastily procured from the town and when the reading was done they considered how best to meet the new social settling upon the...
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that i have been attempting the serious study of continental art of the middle ages my notes on each example i are at your service they are of no use to me i shall be pleased with them o travelling far and near not far knight with moody carelessness you know i dare say that sheep occasionally become giddy in the head ...
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walked into the gloomy of the british museum for the half hour previous to their closing that meeting with smith had the present with the past up the chasm of his from england as i it xi the a pair of blue eyes final circumstances of his previous time of residence in london formed but a yesterday to the circumstances n...
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more i did it for the best blame me if you will i did it for the best and now say how could i be with you afterwards as i had been before i i don t know at all i can t sa p r of blue eyes knight remained fixed in thought and once he i had a suspicion this afternoon that there might be some such meaning in your words ab...
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how he y in the fields while his then sweetheart went for her pony and how the last kiss he ever gave her was given a mile out of town on the way to these things related with a will he believed th t in doing so he ci d the of his claim to a pair of blue eyes curse her curse that woman that miserable letter that parted...
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he formed a resolution and after that he could make pretence of slumber no longer rising and dressing himself he sat down and waited for day that night was restless too not because of the of a return to english scenery not because he was about to meet his parents and settle down for a while to english cottage life he w...
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you said you were not coming till to morrow remarked knight i did it was an to come to day this journey was your engagement then no it was not this is an of mine too i left a note to explain it and account for my not being able to meet you this evening as we arranged so did i for you you don t look well you did not th...
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first fancy which has no root ever it is not true i said passionately it was you put me out and now you ll be pushing in again between us and me of my chance again my right that s what it is how of you to come anew and try to take her away from me when you had her i did not interfere and you might i think mr knight do ...
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was a flat one towards the to learn if the rain had penetrated it resting it on the he supported it with one hand wiping his face with the handkerchief he held in the other i suppose you know what i ve got here he observed to the smith no i don t said the smith pausing again on his as the rain s not over i ll show you ...
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what is called no society will comprehend the gradual of distinctions that went on in this case at some sacrifice of on the part of one household the widow was sometimes sorry to find with what readiness anne caught up some dialect word or accent from the miller and his friends but he was so good and true hearted a man...
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at this time there were two arch enemies of mankind satan as usual and who had sprung up and his elder rival altogether mrs alluded of course to the junior gentleman it cannot be he said anne ah there s burden the man who watches at the he ll know she waved her hand to an aged form of the same colour as the road who h...
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camp perhaps no that was impossible it was the parson no he would not come at dinner time it was the well informed man who travelled with and the best not at all his time was not till thursday at three before they could think further the visitor moved forward another step and the got a glimpse of him through the same f...
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is a poor headed for getting up a feast poor chap his sight is bad that s true and he s very good at making the beds and the legs of the chairs and other furniture or i should have got rid of him years ago you should have a woman to attend to the house said the widow the trumpet major yes i should but well tis a fine d...
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and below it so that a continuous and easy track was formed from the crest of the down to the bottom of the steep ihe the rested on a bed of solid chalk and the surface exposed by the formed a white ribbon from top to bottom then the of working soldiers all disappeared nd not long after a troop of in watering order rod...
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stay at home this time your father was a professional man certainly having spoken as a mother she sighed as a woman why do you sigh mother you are so and stiff about everything very we ll go oh no i am not sure that we ought i did not promise and there will be no trouble in keeping away anne apparently did not feel ce...
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mrs widow but my son john has come to help fetch ye shall i ask him in till ye be ready certainly i shall be down in a minute screamed anne s mother in a voice toward the staircase when she descended the outline of the appeared half way down the passage this is john said the miller simply john you can mind mrs very wel...
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his clothes but how if we should be all you can t expect a man to be brave in his the trumpet major shirt especially we that have only got so far as shoulder he s not coming this summer he ll never come at all said a tall major the soldier was too much engaged in attending upon anne and her mother to join in these hims...
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your uncle at the farm for a day or two mr o the trumpet major no no as i told you at but i have to call and see the old old gentleman gentleman no he lives upon of the ha ha and the speaker s regular white teeth showed themselves like snow in a dutch well well the profession of arms makes a man proof against au that ...
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up into the garret in the north comer there is no fireplace in the room but i sha n t want that poor soul o me tis not moving far tis not but i have not a soul belonging to major me within ten mile and you know very well that i couldn t afford to go to lodgings that i had to pay for i know it i know it uncle well don ...
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white teeth themselves in a smile well of course i should draw my sword no i mean my sword would be already drawn and i should put spurs to my horse as we call it in the army and i should ride up to him and say no i the trumpet major shouldn t say anything of course men never waste words in battle i should take him...
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beautiful pair for out o doors though my short ones be best for close work such as and catching that s true what have you seen said anne miss you know said shaking her head still but he s a fine young and will have all his uncle s money when a s gone anne said nothing to this and i he trumpet major looking ahead with a...
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who was to know you were so serious as he did not go anne stood still and said nothing i see you have a deal more caution and a deal less good nature than i ever thought you had he continued emphatically no sir it is not any planned manner of mine at all she said earnestly but you will see i am sure that i could not go...
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the trumpet major heels elevated over the saddle to keep them out of the stream which threatened to wash rider and horse into the deep mill head just below it was plainly he who had struck her for in a moment he looked up and their eyes met laughed loudly and her window again and just at that moment the began down the ...
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army my father gave me a very fair education and your father showed me how to draw horses on a slate i mean yes i ought to have done more than i have what did you know my father she asked with new interest oh yes for years you were a little of a thing then and you used to cry when we big boys looked at you and made pi...
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the horse and away uncle coming on to the house at a pace as soon as he observed and anne he fell into a gait when they came up he recognised anne and you have come home from so soon farmer said she yes faith i couldn t bide at such a place said the farmer your hand in your pocket every minute of the day tis a shilling...
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first anne fair anne i will not part from you till i see you safe at your own dear door she s in my hands said though not without firmness so it is not required thank you man had i but my sword come said i don t want to quarrel let s put it to her whichever of us she likes best he shall take her home miss anne which tr...
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turn many of the soldiers being not at all particular about half an inch of nose more or less a trifling de the trumpet major of teeth or a larger crop of than is customary in the saxon race thus with one and another courtship began to be practised in on rather a large scale and the young men who had been bom in the pl...
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managing and partly fix m a new circumstance with which she found it difficult to reckon the near neighbourhood that had produced the friendship of anne for john was slowly a warmer liking between her mother and his father thus the month of july passed the troop horses came with the regularity of twice a day down to dr...
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good woman but i have reasoned it out and at last thank god i have got over my ambition the are our true and only friends and mr with all his money is nothing to us at all but said anne what has made you change all of a sudden from what you have said before my feelings and my reason which i am thankful for anne knew th...
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vague and was to day altogether too lively for the reasoning of this warm hearted soldier to so he in his intention to catch her alone and at last in spite of her to the contrary he succeeded the miller and mrs had walked about fifty yards farther on and anne and himself were left standing by the gate but the gallant s...
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the hill accompanied by mrs and anne as usual the trumpet major i it was a clear day with little wind stirring and the view from the downs one of the most extensive in the county was the eye of any observer who cared for such things swept over and s bay beyond and lying on the sea to the left of these like a great crou...
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its and it back again regarding and yet not examining it just then she saw the trumpet major coming back i can t find david an he said and his heart was not sorry as he said it anne was still holding out the sweet william as if about to drop it and scarcely knowing what she did under the distressing sense that she was ...
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as as her beauty without much therefore he and she had arranged to be married at once and at that his father might not be deprived of the pleasures of the wedding feast she had kindly consented to follow him by land in the course of a few days and to live in the house as their guest for the week or so previous to the c...
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she went to assure herself of her indifference to circumstances chapter xv captain bob of the merchant service while and his neighbours were thus rambling forth full of some of them including anne in the rear heard the of light wheels along the curved lane to which the path was the at once anne thought perhaps that s h...
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morning but not ao much as a could i get for my traps trumpet major ever was gone to the review so i went too thinking i might meet you there i was then obliged to return to for the luggage then there was a of captain bob by pulling out his arms like drawers and shutting them again him on the back as if he were choking...
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very well but he s sleepy to night this other one i brought along for any neighbour that would like to have him his colours are not so bright but tis a good bird if you would like to have him you are welcome to him he said turning to anne who had been tempted forward by the birds you have hardly spoken yet miss anne bu...
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would say if she knew said the miller yes indeed and it is wrong of him anne instantly cried tears running down her face as she threw the parcel of ribbons on the floor you d better bestow your gifts where you bestow your love mr that s what i say and anne turned her back and went away the trumpet major take them f...
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a good wedding feast chapter xvi they make ready for the illustrious stranger preparations for s welcome and for the event which was to follow at once occupied the attention of the mill the miller and his man had but dim notions of on any large scale so the great wedding cleaning was kindly by mrs bob being mostly away...
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the office was placed near the ancient fabric so that whenever the sunday was late which it always was in hot weather in cold weather in wet weather and in weather of almost every other sort the rattle and swearing outside completely drowned the parson s voice within and sustained the interest of the congregation at pr...
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young thing pricked up her ears does pay as good this summer as in oh you know about it then i thought oh no no i have heard of read in the papers you know dear robert about the doings there and the actors and you know yes yes i see well i have been away from england a long time and don t know much about the theatre...
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might seriously injure she went into the house accompanied by mrs and her daughter though before leaving bob she managed to whisper in his ear don t tell them i came by will you dear a request which was quite needless for bob had long ago determined to keep that a dead secret not because it was an uncommon mode of tra...
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hours ago the miller and john stood like straight sticks in the room the others had quitted john s face being hastily turned towards a of on the wall that he had not seen more than a hundred and fifty times before come sit down and have a dish of tea any the trumpet major how said his father at last she ll soon be righ...
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his absence and lighted the candles miss johnson having sent down some time before john re entered the house to say that she would prefer to keep her room that evening was not expected to join them and on this account bob showed less than his customary the miller wishing to keep up his son s spirits expressed his regre...
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said and leaning on his walking stick he pursued his lonely way that night anne lay awake in her bed musing on the traits of the new friend who had come to her neighbour s house she would not be critical it was and wrong but she could not help thinking of what interested her and were there she silently asked in miss jo...
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i ve thought you would come with me and cheer the way he trumpet major where shall we search said anne oh in the holes of rivers you know and down wells and in and over cliffs and like that your eyes might catch the loom of any bit of a shawl or bonnet that i should overlook and it would do me a real service please do ...
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your sleeve that ru swear i didn t said the miller firmly thinks i there s no knowing what i may do to shock her so i ll take my solid in the and only a and a drop in her company for manners you could do no more than that certainly said bob gently if my manners be good enough for up people like the they be good enough ...
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over bob so sit ye down and talk with me of old times he added ah jack it is well enough for you to speak like that said the sailor but i can t help feeling that it is a cruel thing you have done after all she would have been snug enough for me would i had never found out this about her john why did you interfere you h...
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t go after all he said i be by accidents any more he picked up his bundle and and his steps towards mill knocking down the and as he went with gloomy and indifferent blows when he got within sight of the house he beheld david in the road all right all right again captain shouted that a wedding after all ah she s back...
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them for the friends we meant to ask would not have cleared all the trumpet major upon the whole the idea pleased him well particularly when he noticed the forlorn look of his sailor son as he walked about the place and pictured the inevitably effect of and upon bob s shattered nerves at such a crisis even if the notes...
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of the august evening leaving anne still in doubt as to the meaning of his private meeting with miss johnson john had been going to tell them that on the last night by an especial privilege it would be in his power to come and stay with them until the major eleven o clock but at the moment of leaving he abandoned the i...
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his hands his eyes being fixed upon a document that lay open before him what art bob with such a long face bob sighed and then mrs and anne entered tis only a state paper that i fondly thought i should have a use for he said gloomily and looking down as before he cleared his voice as if moved inwardly to go on and bega...
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and other curious of the marine world but these were directly addressed to his father and mrs anne being included at the point by a glance only he sometimes opened bottles of sweet for her and then she thanked him but even this did not lead to her encouraging his chat the et major one day when anne was an apple she was...
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more than a mere behind the earlier he looked for an empty at the next and finding the one next his own he entered it and changed his for that in his during the run of twenty miles thus prepared he awaited the platform which was reached as the clock struck twelve called a fly and drove at once to the town hall the nati...
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but at the end of twenty minutes still seeming indifferent to what was going on around her she said she would stay no longer and reminding that they were soon to meet and talk over the drove off with her aunt to castle stood looking at the retreating carriage till it was enveloped in shades that the lamps could not the...
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serious practical consultation about the castle works to which had alluded was now close at hand he determined to banish sentimental reflections on the that were her nature by active preparation for his profession undertaking to be her high priest in art to elaborate a structure whose cunning would be meeting her eye e...
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and absurd besides the king doesn t marry me at the end of the play as in shakespeare s other and if miss de continues seriously i shall not play at all the young man pressed her hand but she gently slipped it away are we not engaged he asked she shook her head come yes we are shall we tell your aunt he continued at t...
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listened to the gallant captain s salutation of the princess and her response de s fair princess welcome to the court of fair i give you back again and welcome i have not yet listened to this and to all that which followed of the same sort with the reflection that after all the princess never throughout the piece her...
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mechanically when she pushed to the door do you really think it was well done she asked drawing near him with a air it was done the part from and pre eminently so do you think i knew he was going to introduce it or do you think i didn t know she said with that gentle which shows itself in the loved one s manner when s...
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i will come to you in the or as soon as i am disengaged she took him to a little doorway in the comer which opened into a descending and went down when he had the door at the bottom and stepped into the lower corridor she asked are you down and on receiving an affirmative reply she closed the top door a chapter x was i...
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you have promised george and you remember there is to be no what we talked about now will you go in the one horse to station this afternoon and meet the four o clock a train inquire for a lady for castle a miss bell see her safely into the carriage and send her straight on here i am particularly anxious that she shou...
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otherwise than talk kindly to a man incline a little to him and his fault when the sole motive of so audacious an exercise of his wits was to escape acting with any other heroine than herself his conjectures were brought to a pause by the ending of the comedy and the opportunity afforded him of joining the group in fro...
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follows we are informed that a marriage is likely to be arranged captain de of the royal horse only son of sir william de and only daughter of the late john power esq m p of castle dropped the paper and stared out of the window fortunately for his emotions the horse and carriage were at this moment brought to the door...
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when you are away i take no pleasure in anything i don t deserve it i have no right to disturb you so she said very gently but i have given you some pleasure have i not a little more pleasure than pain perhaps you have and yet but i don t accuse you dearest yes you have given me pleasure one truly pleasant time was whe...
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knew not of was scarcely probable yet that existed for de he could not deny the link formed by between de and de much as he liked the girl was that he could have wished away it constituted a bridge of access to s inner life and feelings which nothing could rival except that one fact which as he firmly believed did actu...
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my own conduct but to offer you a very fair explanation of it your resolve not to be out of humour with me suggests that you have been sorely tempted that way else why should such a resolve have been necessary if you only knew what passes in my mind sometimes you would perhaps not be so ready to blame shall i tell you ...
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disregard his feelings but considering the relationship and his kindness in other respects i should prefer not to do so at present honestly speaking i want the courage to resist him in some things he said to me the other day that he was very much surprised that i did not depend upon his judgment for my future happiness...
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time will show that i am within the truth i hope you don t let your passions your policy as so many young men are apt to do better be poor and than rich and that s the opinion of an old man however i was going to say that it was purely from a policy that i allowed a friendship to develop between my daughter and miss po...
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what to do he walked down the avenue de la to the between the shore and the public and sat down to think the hotel which she had given him as her address looked right out upon him and the sea beyond and he rested there with the pleasing hope that her eyes might glance from a window and discover his form everything in t...
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table looking among the rather than among the regular players for faces or at least for one face which did not meet his gaze there passing into his ears the while a confusion of sentences le le est il ne va pair et from the lips of the the suggestive charm which the centuries old im a personality rather than games and ...
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you a favour will you do me one in return looked toward the rooms and said well lend me two hundred yes said but on one condition that i don t give them to you till you are inside the hotel you are staying at can t be it s at nice well i am going back to nice and i ll lend you the money the instant we get there but i w...
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desires t nice to miss powers grand hotel have lost all at have learnt that d s returns here to morrow please send me one hundred pounds by him and save me from disgrace will await him at eleven o clock and four on the i a chapter v five hours after the despatch of that captain de was rattling along the coast rail...
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for fix m a visit to the palace was his enforced of it and not her mental in the result of his meeting with these and conjectures filled the gallant officer s mind during the greater part of the journey he arrived at the hotel they had all stayed at in succession about six hours after had left it for a little excursion...
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movements the houses beneath should have been deserted and grass growing in the streets behind the long roofs thus visible to over the window sill with their of windows rose the cathedral spire in airy forming the highest object in the scene it suggested something which for a long time she appeared unwilling to utter b...
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accept his fortune without much question the journey to though short was not without incidents on which he could work out this curious of to power an already positive passion handing her in and out of the carriage accidentally getting brushed by her dress of de and all such as this he made available fuel though she mig...
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pictures and but the shutters were closed and only stray beams of light gleamed in to suggest what was there can t somebody open the windows said de and the attendant is about to do it said her uncle and as he spoke the shutters to the east were flung back and one of the loveliest views in the forest disclosed itself o...
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for it detained him there two days or rather a feat of resolution by which he set himself to with stand the drag chain of s influence was for that jf time at the end of it he moved onward there was no difficulty in discovering their track and feeling that might as well return to england by the a route as by any other h...
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then what did you come here for burst out de tis my belief you are no more than a but i won t call you names fu tell you quite plainly that if there is anything wrong in that message to her which i believe there is no i can t believe though i fear it you have the chance of appearing in clothes at the expense of the ...
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a very thing to do said what places has he visited those which afford opportunities for the study of the old masters i believe said de he has also been to and so on the captain spoke the more readily to her questioning in that he divined her words to be dictated not by any suspicions of his relations with dare but by h...
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fascination towards the photograph on the floor which contrary to his first impulse dare as has been said now seemed in no hurry to regain at last that the card whatever it was had something to do with the exclamation picked it up it was a portrait of but by a device known in the though to produce what seemed to be a p...
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route but he had scarcely expected it yet and the s sudden appearance led dare to ask himself the ominous question whether had discovered his trick and was in the mood for prompt measures a ii a there is no more for me to do here said the boy man hastily to de miss power does not wish to ask me any more questions i may...
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will stay and dine with us said the former rather with the air of being unhappily able to do no less than ask the question my charges here won t go down to the table d h i fear but de and myself will be there excused himself and in a few minutes withdrew at the door he looked round for an instant and his eyes met s the...
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not unreasonable as a further development of that silence moreover her social position as a woman of wealth always felt by as a perceptible bar to that full and free eagerness with which he would fain have approached her rendered it impossible for him to return to the charge ascertain the reason of her coldness and it ...
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as if those rash words of mine had never been spoken i must bear it all as best i can i suppose said de with melancholy and i shall treat you as your behaviour shall seem to deserve she said then i may st y yes i am willing to give you that pleasure if it is one in return for the attentions you have shown and the troub...
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as well satisfied as if she had done so panting broke the silence will you go on and discover if the top is near he went on this time the top was near when he returned she was sitting where he had left her among the leaves it is quite near now he told her tenderly and she took his arm again without a word de and soon t...
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your uncle above let me just ask do i stand any chance at all yet is it possible you can never be more than you have been you put me out of all patience but why did you raise my hopes you should at least pity me after doing that yes it s that again i unfortunately raised your hopes because i was a fool was not myself ...
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have come by the last boat so as to have been touched into romance by the rays of moon like those happy people said a voice she looked towards the spot whence the voice proceeded which was a window quite near at hand de was smoking outside it and she became aware that the words were addressed to her you left me very ab...
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somewhat he corrected the exclamation my dear miss power i will without reserve tell it to you all over again pray spare yourself the effort she said what has that one fatal step betrayed me into do you seriously mean to say that i am the cause of your life being coloured like this scene of grass and sand if so i have ...
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that to move her was highly still she was not in serious danger and having called in a physician who pronounced rest indispensable they prepared to remain in the old capital two or three additional days mr power thought he would take advantage of the halt to run up to paris leaving de in charge of the ladies in more wa...
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otherwise i have grown to be so much of your way of thinking that i accuse myself and am accused by others of being worldly and half and other dreadful things though it isn t that at all they were now walking down the preceded by the sombre figures with the pot flowers who were just visible in the rays that reached th...
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conversed in the doorway of the sitting room which de now entered crossing it to s apartment he came out from the latter at a pensive pace she is doing well he said gently you have been very good to her was the chair i saw by her bed the one you have been sitting in all night i sometimes sat there sometimes here i wish...
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her head it is not for you to express yourself like that she answered captain de de and he went up the stairs to the second floor and returned to the sitting room having left a light burning de proceeded to look for the and found it on the carpet where it had been swept from the table when he had opened the sheet a sud...
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