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With Karen Marshall clinging to his arm, Dundee walked down the hall, beyond the staircase to an open door on his left a door guarded by a lounging plainclothesman. Seated at the dressing-table of the guests' lavatory was Flora Miles, her sallow dark face so ravaged that she looked ten years older than when he had first seen her an hour before. "So you were in here when you heard Mrs.
Sim and I slept nearly the whole day, while Flora read the books and newspapers which I had bought at the towns. I had done all the work I could find to do on the raft, and had fitted up the house to my mind. I had an easy time of it. At one of the large towns I found what was called "A Panorama of the Mississippi River," which I bought and put up in the house.
I challenged Alain with an open smile as he backed before us; and no sooner was the dance over, than I saw him desert Lady Frazer on a hurried excuse, and seek the door to satisfy himself that his men were on guard. I dropped laughing into a chair beside Flora. "Anne," she whispered; "who is on the stairs?" "Two Bow Street runners." If you have seen a dove a dove caught in a gin!
Miles crept in. "Is this the order of your arrival?" Dundee asked them all. Penny, who was standing against the wall, just inside the doorway, spoke up, staring at Flora with frowning intentness. "You're sort of mixed up, aren't you, Flora? I was standing right here until the worst of it was over I didn't even go near Nita, and I know you didn't pass me.
"Yes, 'twas so he put it," replied Flora, while the old lady's eyebrows visibly cried: "You sly bird! will you impute all your own words to that Yankee, and his to yourself?" Which is just what Flora continued to do as the grandma tinkled: "And you said what?" "I said if I couldn't keep him at home I ought to get him into the cavalry.
This conjecture, which was well founded, led, however, to false inferences. For the emotion which Edward displayed on approaching Flora and Rose at the ball of Holyrood was placed by the Chevalier to the account of the latter; and he concluded that the Baron's views about the settlement of his property, or some such obstacle, thwarted their mutual inclinations.
"Not straight off," Penny answered, with an obvious effort to remember clearly every detail. "Let's see Oh, yes! That hand was played out before Ralph had finished playing his, at our table, so I was free to pay attention to the other table. Flora said that since they couldn't play another hand until Dexter came back, she thought she'd better hunt up Karen, who hadn't come back yet."
I have come to say again all that in another clime I said with joy to you. When I forget you, let what trouble may oppress you, may God forget me, and my own right hand forget to do me honest service." "Oh! no more no more!" sobbed Flora. "Yes, much more, if you will tell me of words which shall be stronger than others in which to paint my love, my faith, and my constancy."
If you could know how things went, you'd be too thankful to have escaped it. It was awful beyond words!" Loyal Flora Burgess had lavished on "Miss Lydia's" first dinner party her entire vocabulary of deferential, not to say reverential, encomiums.
"Flora Flora!" he cried. Then with a sudden bound something dashed from off the bed. The concussion against him was so sudden and so utterly unexpected, as well as so tremendously violent, that he was thrown down, and, in his fall, the light was fairly extinguished.
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