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Deliberately, almost banally had I not realized his purpose, he changed the subject. He held her from him at arm's length. "Ruth!" he exclaimed, half mockingly, half reprovingly. "Don't you think your morning negligee is just a little scanty even for this Godforsaken corner of the earth?" Lips parted in sheer astonishment, she looked at him.
Brenton interrupted banally, for, in his secret heart, he was painfully aware that it was not the church alone which kept him so preoccupied that his preoccupation had come to be an occupation on its own account. "Your work needn't be suicidal," Olive objected. "My father, even, says it is taking it out of you rather badly, and he insists that they must hurry about the curate.
Ah, you made me begin to think. I could not help the chill that came on my heart. Marry you? I could not! I never could, now." "Yet you had decided you had told me it was agreed " "I had decided on facts as I thought they were. Other facts came before you arrived. Sir, you do me a very great compliment." "But you loved me once," I said banally. "I do not consider it fair to mention that now."
But no one will think of you, nobody will be watching you; so by and by will you weight the paper with something heavy and drop it across the rail?" My head was whirling, but a graven image might have envied me my impassivity. I bowed. "I shall be delighted," I announced banally, "to do as you say."
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