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And Miss Cahere's eyelids fluttered, but she did not actually raise her eyes towards her interlocutor. An odd smile flickered for an instant on Deulin's lips. "Ah!" he said, with a sharp sigh and that was all. He bowed, and turned away to speak to a man who had been waiting at his elbow for some minutes.
Paul Deulin happened to be in Lady Orlay's drawing-room, nearly a month later, when Miss Cahere's name was announced. He made a grimace and stood his ground. Lady Orlay, it may be remembered, was one of those who attempt to keep their acquaintances in the right place that is to say, in the background of her life.
But at the corner of the deck-house a gust caught Miss Cahere, and held her there in a pretty attitude, with her two hands upraised to her hat, looking at him with frank and laughing eyes, and waiting for him to come to her assistance. The same gust of wind made the steamer lurch so that Cartoner had to grasp Miss Cahere's arm to save her from falling.
He must have seen something to interest him in Netty Cahere's face perhaps he caught a glance from the dark-lashed eyes for he turned and looked at her again, with a sudden, dull light in his face.
"This is even worse than I anticipated," said Miss Mangles, watching the hotel porters in a conflict with Miss Netty Cahere's large trunks. "What is worse, Jooly?" "Poland!" replied Miss Mangles, in a voice full of foreboding, and yet with a ring of determination in it, as if to say that she had reformed worse countries than Poland in her day. "I allow," said Mr.
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