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A great awe came over him. It was not Pete alone that he was encountering. In these searchings and rendings of the heart, which uncovered every thought and tore open every wound, he was entering the lists with God himself. The church bell began to ring. "What's that?" cried Philip. It had struck upon his ear like a knell. "Oiel Verree," said Pete.
You see I am fairly launched in fashionable society, but I love everybody just the same as ever, and the moment the candle is out I shall be thinking of Glenfaba and seeing the 'Waits, and 'Oiel Verree, and 'Hunting the Wren, and grandfather smoking his pipe in the study by the light of the fire, and Sir Thomas Traddles, the tailless, purring and blinking at his feet.
"Ah, mon Dieu!" she said; "but it must be very fatiguing to sit so long in the same position. And to paint.... Oiel! what practice! what perseverance! what patience! Avec permission, M'sieur..." And with this she sidled up to Müller's elbow, leaving Monsieur Tapotte thunderstruck at her audacity.
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