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Margaret, seating herself, removed a glove. The hand in which she then put hers was soft and warm and she feared that it might perspire. She looked at the woman who looked at her, sighed, closed her eyes and appeared to go to sleep. Then, presently, her lips parted and in a voice totally different from that in which she had just spoken, a voice that was thin and shrill, words came leapingly.
His mouth tightened no girl on earth, even Nancy, could realize exactly what that meant the battle to recover steadiness and temperance and sanity in a temperament that was in spite of its poised externals most brilliantly sensitive, most leapingly responsive to all strong stimuli a temperament moreover that the war and the armistice between them had turned wholly toward the stimuli of fever and Ted had made it with neither bravado nor bluster and without any particular sense of doing very much and now this girl was going to smash it and him together as if she were doing nothing more important than playing with jackstones.
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