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Oh, Herbert, my poor, lost boy, I don't wonder that you and so many fine fellows had to die before such men were conquered." Ella was so overjoyed at her prospects when all had been explained to her, that she insisted on Mara's spending the evening at the Bodines' so that her father might understand the whole arrangement.
His mask was perfect, and after an instant hers was equally so, yet all the time she was as conscious of his love as of her own. He recognized the new element which the Bodines had brought into her life, and with a lover's keen instinct began to surmise what the captain might become to her.
Houghton said: "It's strange we've heard nothing from those Bodines. They appear to accept their lives from your hand as a matter of course;" and the old man watched the effect of these tentative words. George flushed, but said gently: "Dear father, try to be just, even in your enmities. I have heard from Captain Bodine, and "
As Mara had taken the Bodines and their affairs as an antidote for her trouble, he sought relief in the preoccupation which the Ainsleys might bring to his mind. Accordingly he met father and daughter at the station and escorted them to the hotel with some degree of pleasurable excitement. Miss Ainsley made the same impression of remarkable beauty and cosmopolitan culture as at first.
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