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She rose with a jerk that seemed to my eyes as much an expression of disappointment as anger, and took a reluctant step or two towards the door.
“I am sure I meant no offence, miss,” she stammered, and took another step still more reluctantly than before.
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Anice, who was not lacking in wit, Gabriel Drakter evidently felt, if she could not see, the struggle she had awakened in my mind, for she turned and gave me a look I no longer had the courage to resent.
“It is only something I overheard Mr. Guy say to his brother,” she faltered, opening and shutting her parasol with a nervous hand; then, as I let my hair suddenly fall from my grasp, in the rush of relief I felt, blurted out: “You have beautiful hair, miss; I don’t wonder Mr. Guy should say, ‘One of us two must marry that girl,’” and was gone like a flash from the room, leaving me in a state that bordered on stupefaction.
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Rhoda Colwell’s house lay in my way. I took especial pains not to go by it, great as the relief would have been to know she was at home alinks:
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