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But Georges' face grew paler every minute, and his smile was so painful that Lorraine could not bear it and turned her head away, her hand tightening on the box-rail alongside. As they were about to turn out into the Morteyn road, where the forest ended, Jack suddenly checked the horse and rose to his feet. "What is it?" asked Lorraine. "Oh, I see! Oh, look!"
They had not believed Miss Gray capable of such agitation! What ever had happened "An old friend," she whispered, her face alternately paling and flushing. "A very dear old friend! The the third violin " She leaned weakly against the box-rail. The girls looked down at the orchestra.
A flutter of applause marked the coming in of the orchestra. There was the usual scraping of chairs and whining of strings. Then suddenly Miss Gray leaned out over the box-rail, exclaiming incoherently, her hands clasping and unclasping in a wild, helpless way. An opening crash of the cymbals covered her confusion. The four girls were staring at her, round-eyed.
Oh, how deathly she looks! I cannot bear it!" Roger did not doubt her self-control, until the gypsy queen appeared from her tent to disturb the love-scene of Thaddeus and Arline; and then, as Olive started forward and leaned against the box-rail, with parted, colorless lips, he certainly thought the name hovering on them would escape. But it did not.
Nan, quick as a flash to catch a point, leaned over the box-rail and looked at the champions with fire in her eye. "Oh, you just wait! wait!" she bit out between her teeth. Certain it was that there was no one who knew the Rube as well as I; and I knew beyond the shadow of a doubt that the hour before me would see brightening of a great star pitcher on the big league horizon.
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