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Her heart rose with a wild, unreasoning hope. When a dip in the road hid them, Mary turned toward the house, not knowing whether to go to Jean or to slip away through the wood. But the instant her eye fell on Madam Carolan's window she knew what had halted Sidney, and a wave of heartsickness made her breath come short. Jean had taken her place there, to watch and wait.
"What is she like?" asked Miss Trappème eagerly. "I didn't see her face, but her clothes are all right, I can tell you." "Oh, a little, common-looking thing, but uppish. I wonder what on earth she does want to see Mr. Grainger for?" Half an hour later, when Miss Carolan's luggage arrived, it was duly inspected and criticised by the whole Trappème family.
About half-way up he suddenly stopped, for at that moment a loud, hoarse voice from a room above commenced singing a strange kind of ditty. "The captain is singing," said Frank, "and, as I live, 'Carolan's Receipt for drinking whisky'. Let us wait a moment till he has done, as he would probably not like to be interrupted in his melody."
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