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The next step of the new lodger was to take a small, carefully-covered book from his pocket. The gilt edges, dulled by time, were, however, observed by the watchful spectator, a prisoner in his chair. The fine print and the divided verses were evident to his keen eyes, that twinkled in their red frames with an uncanny light. "No hypocrisy here! it don't take.
Yet something in him longed to refuse the lemon, the something that never ceased from denouncing her. He uttered the right banality: "How good of you to bother about me!" "But you bother about me, and on your only free day! Don't you think I am grateful to you?" There was no mockery in her voice. Today her irony was concealed, but, like a carefully-covered fire, he knew it was burning still.
Lithe desert men, almost naked, but with carefully-covered heads, strode beside them, keeping pace with the horses, saying nothing, but watching them with a bright intentness that seemed to hint at unutterable designs.
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