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The Shuttle Chapter 31 - She Would Not · The Frances Hodgson Burnett Library

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  Speaker 1: CHAPTER XXXI. No, she would not. Sir Nigel did not
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  Speaker 1: invite Rosalie to accompany them, when the next morning, after breakfast,
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  Speaker 1: he reminded Betty of his suggestion of the night before,
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  Speaker 1: that she should walk over the place with him and
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  Speaker 1: show him what had been done. He preferred to make
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  Speaker 1: his study of his sister-in-law undisturbed. There was no detail
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  Speaker 1: whose significance he missed as they went about together. He
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  Speaker 1: had keen eyes, and was quite a sufficiently practical person
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  Speaker 1: on such matters as concerned his own interests. In this
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  Speaker 1: case it was to his interest to make up his
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  Speaker 1: mind as to what he might gain or lose by
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  Speaker 1: the appearance of his wife's family. He did not mean
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  Speaker 1: to lose, if it could be helped, anything either of
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  Speaker 1: personal importance or material benefit, and it could only be
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  Speaker 1: helped by his comprehending clearly what he had to deal with.
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  Speaker 1: Betty was, at present, the chief factor in the situation.
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  Speaker 1: and he was sufficiently astute to see that she might
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  Speaker 1: not be easy to read. His personal theories concerning women
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  Speaker 1: presented to him two or three effective ways of managing them.
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  Speaker 1: You made love to them, you flattered them either subtly
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  Speaker 1: or grossly, you roughly or smoothly bullied them, or you
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  Speaker 1: harrowed them with haughty indifference, if your love-making had produced
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  Speaker 1: its proper effect, when it was necessary to lure or
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  Speaker 1: drive or trick them into submission. Women should be made
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  Speaker 1: useful in one way or another. Little fool as she was,
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  Speaker 1: Rosalie had been useful. He had, after all, was said
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  Speaker 1: and done, had some comparatively easy years as the result
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  Speaker 1: of her existence. But she had not been useful enough,
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  Speaker 1: and there had even been moments when he had wondered
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  Speaker 1: if he had made a mistake in separating her entirely
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  Speaker 1: from her family. There might have been more to be
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  Speaker 1: gained if he had allowed them to visit her, and
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  Speaker 1: had played the part of a devoted husband in their presence.
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  Speaker 1: A great bore, of course, but they could not have
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  Speaker 1: spent their entire lives at Stornham. Twelve years ago, however,
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  Speaker 1: he had known very little of Americans, and he had
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  Speaker 1: lost his temper. He was really very fond of his temper,
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  Speaker 1: and rather enjoyed referring to it with tolerant regret as
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  Speaker 1: being a bad one and beyond his control, with a
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  Speaker 1: manner which suggested that the attribute was the inevitable result
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  Speaker 1: of strength of character and masculine spirit. the luxury of
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  Speaker 1: giving way to it was a great one and it
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  Speaker 1: was exasperating as he walked about with this handsome girl
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  Speaker 1: to find himself beginning to suspect that where she was
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  Speaker 1: concerned some self-control might be necessary he was led to
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  Speaker 1: this thought because the things he took in on all
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  Speaker 1: sides could only have been achieved by a person whose
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  Speaker 1: mind was a steadily balanced thing in one's treatment of
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  Speaker 1: such a creature methods must be well chosen the crudest
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  Speaker 1: had sufficed to overwhelm rosalie he tried two or three
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  Speaker 1: little things as experiments during their walk. The first was
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  Speaker 1: to touch with dignified pathos on the subject of Uhtred. Betty,
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  Speaker 1: he intimated gently, could imagine what a man's grief and
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  Speaker 1: disappointment might be on finding his son and heir deformed
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  Speaker 1: in such a manner. The delicate reserve with which he
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  Speaker 1: managed to convey his fear that Rosalie's own uncontrolled hysteric
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  Speaker 1: attacks had been the cause of the misfortune was very
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  Speaker 1: well done. She had, of course, been very young and
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  Speaker 1: much spoiled, and had not learned self-restraint, poor girl. It
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  Speaker 1: was at this point that Betty first realized a certain
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  Speaker 1: hideous thing. She must actually remain silent. There would be
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  Speaker 1: at the outset many times when she could only protect
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  Speaker 1: her sister by refraining from either denial or argument. If
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  Speaker 1: she turned upon him now with refutation, it was Rosie
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  Speaker 1: who would be called upon to bear the consequences. He
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  Speaker 1: would go at once to Rosie, and she herself would
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  Speaker 1: have done what she had said she would not do,
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  Speaker 1: she would have brought trouble upon the poor girl before
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  Speaker 1: she was strong enough to bear it. She suspected also
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  Speaker 1: that his intention was to discover how much he had heard,
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  Speaker 1: and if she might be goaded into betraying her attitude
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  Speaker 1: in the matter. But she was not to be so goaded.
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  Speaker 1: He watched her closely, and her very colour itself seemed
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  Speaker 1: to be under her own control. He had expected, if
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  Speaker 1: she had heard hysteric garbled stories from his wife, to
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  Speaker 1: see a flame of scarlet leap up on the cheek
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  Speaker 1: he was admiring. There was no such leap which was
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  Speaker 1: baffling in itself. Could it be that experience had taught
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  Speaker 1: Rosalie the discretion of keeping her mouth shut?'' I am
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  Speaker 1: very fond of Uhtred,' was the sole comment he was granted.'
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  Speaker 1: We made friends from the first. As he grows older
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  Speaker 1: and stronger, his misfortune may be less apparent. He will
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  Speaker 1: be a very clever man.'' He will be a very
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  Speaker 1: clever man, if he's at all like.' He checked himself
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  Speaker 1: with a slight movement of his shoulders.' I was going
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  Speaker 1: to say a thing utterly banal, I beg your pardon.'
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  Speaker 1: I forgot for the moment that I was not talking
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  Speaker 1: to an English girl.' It was so stupid that she
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  Speaker 1: turned and looked at him, smiling faintly, but her answer
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  Speaker 1: was mild and soft.' Do not deprive me of compliments
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  Speaker 1: because I am a mere American,' she said.' I am
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  Speaker 1: very fond of them and respond at once.'' You are
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  Speaker 1: very daring,' he said, looking straight into her eyes.' Deliciously so.
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  Speaker 1: American women always are, I think.'' The young devil,' he
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  Speaker 1: was saying internally. The beautiful young devil! She throws one
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  Speaker 1: off the track!' He found himself more and more attracted
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  Speaker 1: and exasperated as they made their rounds. It was his
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  Speaker 1: sense of being attracted which was the cause of his exasperation.
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  Speaker 1: A girl who could stir one like this would be
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  Speaker 1: a dangerous enemy. Even as a friend she would not
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  Speaker 1: be safe, because one faced the absurd peril of losing
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  Speaker 1: one's head a little and forgetting the precautions one should
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  Speaker 1: never lose sight of where a woman was concerned. the
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  Speaker 1: precautions which provided for one's holding a good-taught rein in
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  Speaker 1: one's own hands. They went from gardens to greenhouses, from
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  Speaker 1: greenhouses to stables, and he was on the watch for
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  Speaker 1: the moment when she would reveal some little feminine pose
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  Speaker 1: or vanity, but this morning at least she laid none bare.
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  Speaker 1: She did not strike him as being of angelic perfections,
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  Speaker 1: but she was very modern and not likely to show
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  Speaker 1: easily any openings in her armour.' Of course I continue
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  Speaker 1: to be amazed,' he commented. though one ought not to
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  Speaker 1: be amazed at anything which evolves from your extraordinary country.
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  Speaker 1: In spite of your impersonal air, I shall persist in
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  Speaker 1: regarding you as my benefactor. But, to be frank, I
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  Speaker 1: always told Rosalie that if she would write to your father,
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  Speaker 1: he would certainly put things in order.'' She did write once,
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  Speaker 1: you will remember,' answered Betty.' Did she?' with courteous vagueness.' Really,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure I did not hear of it. My poor
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  Speaker 1: wife has her own little ideas about the disposal of
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  Speaker 1: her income.' and Betty knew that she was expected to
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  Speaker 1: believe that Rosalie had hoarded the money sent to restore
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  Speaker 1: the place, and from sheer weak miserliness had allowed her
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  Speaker 1: son's heritage to fall to ruin, and but for Rosie's
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  Speaker 1: sake she might have stopped upon the path and looking
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  Speaker 1: at him squarely have said,' You are lying to me,
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  Speaker 1: and I know the truth.' He continued to converse amiably.'
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  Speaker 1: Of course it is you one must thank, not only
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  Speaker 1: for rousing in the poor girl some interest in her
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  Speaker 1: personal appearance, but also some interest in her neighbour's. Some women,
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  Speaker 1: after they marry and pass girlhood, seem to release their
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  Speaker 1: hold on all desire to attract or retain friends. For
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  Speaker 1: years Rosalie has given herself up to a chronic semi-invalidism.
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  Speaker 1: When the mistress of a house is always depressed and
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  Speaker 1: languid and does not return visits, neighbours become discouraged and
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  Speaker 1: drop off, as it were. If his wife had told
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  Speaker 1: stories to gain her sympathy, his companion would be sure
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  Speaker 1: to lose her temper and show her hand. If he
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  Speaker 1: could make her openly lose her temper, he would have
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  Speaker 1: made an advance.' One can quite understand that,' she said.'
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  Speaker 1: It is a great happiness to me to see Rosie
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  Speaker 1: gaining ground every day. She has taken me out with
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  Speaker 1: her a good many times, and people are beginning to
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  Speaker 1: realise that she likes to see them at Stornham.'' You
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  Speaker 1: are very delightful,' he said, with your,' She has taken
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  Speaker 1: me out.' When I glanced at the magnificent array of
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  Speaker 1: cards on the salver in the hall, I realised a
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  Speaker 1: number of things, and quite vulgarly lost my breath.' The
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  Speaker 1: Dunhams have been very amiable in recalling our existence,' charming Americans,
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  Speaker 1: of your order, arouse amiable emotions.' I am very amiable myself,'
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  Speaker 1: said Betty. It was he who flushed now. He was
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  Speaker 1: losing patience at feeling himself held with such lightness at
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  Speaker 1: arm's length, and at being, in spite of himself, somehow
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  Speaker 1: compelled to continue to assume a jocular courtesy.' No, you
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  Speaker 1: are not,' he answered.' Not?' repeated Betty, with an incredulous
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  Speaker 1: lifting of her brows.' You are charming and clever,' but
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  Speaker 1: I rather suspect you of being a vixen. At all events,
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  Speaker 1: you are a spirited young woman, and quick-witted enough to
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  Speaker 1: understand the attraction you must have for the sordid herd.'
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  Speaker 1: And then he became aware, if not of an opening
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  Speaker 1: in her armour, at least of a joint in it,
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  Speaker 1: for he saw near her ear a deepening warmth. That
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  Speaker 1: was it. She was quick-witted, and she hid somewhere a
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  Speaker 1: hot pride.' I confess, however,' he proceeded cheerfully, that notwithstanding
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  Speaker 1: my own experience of the habits of the sordid herd,
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  Speaker 1: I saw one card I was surprised to find, though really,
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  Speaker 1: shrugging his shoulders, I ought to have been less surprised
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  Speaker 1: to find it than to find any other, but it
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  Speaker 1: was bold, I suppose the fellow's desperate.' You are speaking of?'
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  Speaker 1: suggested Betty.' Of Mount Dunstan, hang it all, it was bold,'
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  Speaker 1: as if in half-amused disgust. As she had walked through
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  Speaker 1: the garden paths, Betty had at intervals bent and gathered
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  Speaker 1: a flower until she held in one hand a loose
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  Speaker 1: fair sheaf. At this moment she stooped to break off
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  Speaker 1: a spire of pale blue campanula, and she was, as
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  Speaker 1: with a shock, struck with a consciousness that she bent
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  Speaker 1: because she must, because to do so was a refuge,
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  Speaker 1: a concealment of something she must hide. It had come
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  Speaker 1: upon her without a second's warning. Sir Nigel was right.
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  Speaker 1: She was a vixen, a virago. She was in such
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  Speaker 1: a rage that her heart sprang up and down and
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  Speaker 1: her cheek and eyes were on fire. Her long-trained control
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  Speaker 1: of herself was gone. and her shock was a lightning-swift
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  Speaker 1: awakening to the fact that she felt all this. She
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  Speaker 1: must hide her face, because it was this one man,
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  Speaker 1: just this one and no other, who was being dragged
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  Speaker 1: into this thing with insult. It was an awakening, and
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  Speaker 1: she broke off rather slowly one, two, three, even four
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  Speaker 1: campanula stems before she stood upright again. As for Nigel Anstruthers,
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  Speaker 1: he went on talking in his low-pitched, disgusted voice.' Surely
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  Speaker 1: he might count himself out of the running. There will
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  Speaker 1: be a good deal of running, my dear Betty. You
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  Speaker 1: fair Americans have learned that by this time.' but that
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  Speaker 1: a man who has not even a decent name to offer,
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  Speaker 1: who is blackballed by his county, should coolly present himself
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  Speaker 1: as a pretendant, is an insolence he should be kicked for.
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  Speaker 1: Betty arranged her companionless carefully. There was no exterior reason
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  Speaker 1: why she should draw sword in Lord Mount Dunstan's defence.
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  Speaker 1: He had certainly not seemed to expect anything intimately interested
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  Speaker 1: from her. His manner, she had generally felt, to be
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  Speaker 1: rather restrained, but one could, in a measure, express oneself.'
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  Speaker 1: Whatsoever the running,' she remarked,' no pretendant has complimented me
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  Speaker 1: by presenting himself so far, and Lord Mount Dunstan is
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  Speaker 1: physically an unusually strong man.'' You mean it would be
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  Speaker 1: difficult to kick him? Is this partisanship? I hope not.
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  Speaker 1: Am I to understand,' he added with deliberation,' that Rosalie
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  Speaker 1: has received him here?'' Yes.'' And that you have received
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  Speaker 1: him also, as you have received Lord Westholt?'' Quite.'' Then
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  Speaker 1: I must discuss the matter with Rosalie.' It is not
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  Speaker 1: to be discussed with you. You mean that you will
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  Speaker 1: exercise your authority in this matter? In England, my dear girl,
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  Speaker 1: the master of a house is still sometimes guilty of
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  Speaker 1: exercising authority in matters which concern the reputation of his
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  Speaker 1: female relatives. In the absence of your father, I shall
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  Speaker 1: not allow you, while you are under my roof, to
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  Speaker 1: endanger your name in any degree. I am at least
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  Speaker 1: your brother by marriage. I intend to protect you.' Thank you,'
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  Speaker 1: said Betty.' You are young and extremely handsome.' You will
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  Speaker 1: have an enormous fortune,' and you have evidently had your
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  Speaker 1: own way all your life.' A girl such as you
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  Speaker 1: are may either make a magnificent marriage' or a ridiculous
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  Speaker 1: and humiliating one.' Neither American young women nor English young
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  Speaker 1: men' are as disinterested as they were some years ago.'
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  Speaker 1: Each has begun to learn what the other has to give.''
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  Speaker 1: I think that is true,' commented Betty.' In some cases
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  Speaker 1: there is a good deal to be exchanged on both sides.'
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  Speaker 1: You have a great deal to give, and you'd get
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  Speaker 1: exchange worth accepting. A beggar to state in a tainted
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  Speaker 1: title are not good enough.'' That is businesslike,' Betty made
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  Speaker 1: comment again. Sir Nigel laughed quietly.' The fact is, I
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  Speaker 1: hope you won't misunderstand my saying it, you do not
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  Speaker 1: strike me as being unbusinesslike yourself.'' I am not,' answered Betty.'
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  Speaker 1: I thought not,' rather narrowing his eyes as he watched her.
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  Speaker 1: because he believed that she must involuntarily show her hand
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  Speaker 1: if he irritated her sufficiently.' You do not impress me
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  Speaker 1: as being one of the girls who make unsuccessful marriages.
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  Speaker 1: You are a modern New York beauty, not an early
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  Speaker 1: Victorian sentimentalist.' He did not despair of results from his
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  Speaker 1: process of irritation. To gently but steadily convey to a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful and spirited young creature that no man could approach
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  Speaker 1: her without ulterior motive was rather a good idea. if
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  Speaker 1: one could make it clear, with a casual air of
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  Speaker 1: sensibly taking it for granted, that the natural power of youth, wit,
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  Speaker 1: and beauty were rendered impotent by a greatness of fortune
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  Speaker 1: whose proportions obliterated all else. If one simply argued from
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  Speaker 1: the premise that young love was no affair of hers,
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  Speaker 1: since she must always be regarded as a gilded chattel,
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  Speaker 1: whose cost was writ large in plain figures, what girl
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  Speaker 1: with blood in her veins could endure it long without wincing?
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  Speaker 1: This girl had undue, and as he regarded such matters,
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  Speaker 1: unseemly control over her temper and her nerves, but she
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  Speaker 1: had blood enough in her veins, and presently she would
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  Speaker 1: say or do something which would give him a lead.'
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  Speaker 1: When you marry,' he began. She lifted her head delicately,
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  Speaker 1: but ended the sentence for him with eyes which were
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  Speaker 1: actually not unsmiling.' When I marry, I shall ask something
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  Speaker 1: in exchange for what I have to give.'' If the
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  Speaker 1: exchange is to be equal, you must ask a great deal,'
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  Speaker 1: he answered.' That is why you must be protected from
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  Speaker 1: such fellows as Mount Dunstan.'' If it becomes necessary, perhaps
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  Speaker 1: I shall be able to protect myself,' she said.' Ah! regretfully,
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  Speaker 1: I am afraid I have annoyed you, and that you
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  Speaker 1: need protection more than you suspect.' If she were flesh
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  Speaker 1: and blood, she could scarcely resist resenting the implication contained
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  Speaker 1: in this. But resisted she did. and with a cool
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  Speaker 1: little smile which stirred him to sudden if irritated admiration.
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  Speaker 1: She paused a second, and used the touch of gentle
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  Speaker 1: regret herself.' You have wounded my vanity by intimating that
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  Speaker 1: my admirers do not love me for myself alone.' He
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  Speaker 1: paused also, and narrowing his eyes again, looked straight between
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  Speaker 1: her lashes.' They ought to love you for yourself alone,'
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  Speaker 1: he said in a low voice.' You are a deucedly
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  Speaker 1: attractive girl.'' Oh, Betty,' Rosie had pleaded, 'don't make him angry,
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  Speaker 1: don't make him angry.' Sir Betty lifted her shoulders slightly
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  Speaker 1: without comment.' Shall we go back to the house now?'
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  Speaker 1: she said.' Rosalie will naturally be anxious to hear' that
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  Speaker 1: what has been done in your absence has met with
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  Speaker 1: your approval.' In what manner his approval was expressed to Rosalie,
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  Speaker 1: Betty did not hear this morning at least. Externally cool,
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  Speaker 1: though she had appeared— The process had not been without
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  Speaker 1: its results, and she felt that she would prefer to
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  Speaker 1: be alone.' I must write some letters to catch the
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  Speaker 1: next steamer,' she said as she went upstairs. When she
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  Speaker 1: entered her room, she went to her writing-table and sat
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  Speaker 1: down with pen and paper before her. She drew the
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  Speaker 1: paper towards her and took up the pen, but the
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  Speaker 1: next moment she laid it down and gave a slight
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  Speaker 1: push to the paper. As she did so, she realised
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  Speaker 1: that her hand trembled, I must not let myself form
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  Speaker 1: the habit of falling into rages, or I shall not
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  Speaker 1: be able to keep still some day when I ought
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  Speaker 1: to do it, she whispered. I am in a fury,
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  Speaker 1: a fury! And for a moment she covered her face.
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  Speaker 1: She was a strong girl, but a girl notwithstanding her powers.
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  Speaker 1: What she suddenly saw was that if by one movement
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  Speaker 1: of some powerful unseen hand, Rosie, who had been the
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  Speaker 1: centre of all things, had been swept out of her thought.
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  Speaker 1: Her anger at the injustice done to Rosie had been
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  Speaker 1: as nothing before the fire which had flamed in her
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  Speaker 1: at the insult flung at the other. And all that
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  Speaker 1: was undue and unbalanced. One might as well look the
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  Speaker 1: thing straightly in the face. Her old child hatred of
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  Speaker 1: Nigel Anstruthers had sprung up again in tenfold strength. There was,
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  Speaker 1: it was true, something abominable about him, something which made
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  Speaker 1: his words more abominable than they would have been if
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  Speaker 1: another man had uttered them. but though it was inevitable
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  Speaker 1: that his method should rouse one when those of one's
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  Speaker 1: own blood were concerned, it was not enough to fill
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  Speaker 1: one with raging flame when his malignity was dealing with
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  Speaker 1: those who were almost strangers. Mount Dunstan was almost a stranger,
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  Speaker 1: she had met Lord Westholt oftener. Would she have felt
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  Speaker 1: the same hot beat of the blood if Lord Westholt
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  Speaker 1: had been concerned? No, she answered herself frankly, she would not.
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  Speaker 1: End of chapter thirty-one