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In her great power she saw that for which knights fought in tourney and great kings committed royal sins, and to her splendid beauty she had in secrecy felt that all might be forgiven. She cherished such fancies of her, that one morning, when she believed her absent from the house, she stole into the corridor upon which Clorinda's apartment opened.
Would Miss Clo only overlook it this once, and begin to dress for the ball? Clorinda's heart swelled like a rising tide under Vic's hypocritical condolence, but she could not be quite convinced about the turban; she was a woman of resources, however, and felt that the evil was not without its remedy.
Oh, I don't shrink from telling you the truth, you see. You mean too much to me for me to dissemble it. I've hidden it for eighteen years because I didn't think you wanted to hear it, but I'll give myself the delight of saying it frankly now." She lifted her delicate, high-bred face, fearless love shining in every lineament, to his, and they exchanged their first kiss. Clorinda's Gifts
Clo was so softened by his applause that they got on very harmoniously, and the invitations were written out in Clorinda's peculiar phraseology and in Caleb's largest hand. As it was an affair of importance, he put capitals at the beginning of nearly every word, sometimes in the middle and altogether the writing made such a show, that Clorinda was delighted. "Don't forget de P. S.," said she.
"I will meet her with a duplicity equal to her own, wait a little longer only a little longer." He walked towards the house, and again Victoria called out to her companions: "Here comes marster as fast as fast can be." But Clorinda's thoughts were now centred upon her dinner, and she had no time even for gossip.
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