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Father Benwell stayed where he was, and waited until the lady crossed his range of view. The priest observed with cold attention her darkly-beautiful eyes and hair, her quickly-changing color, her modest grace of movement. Slowly, and in evident agitation, she advanced to the door of the picture gallery and paused, as if she was afraid to open it.
"I shall never know how to thank you," she said. A peculiar smile came over the darkly-beautiful face. "I think you will," returned the duchess "I can imagine what blessings you will some day invoke on my name." Then she withdrew her hand suddenly from the touch of the pure sweet lips. "Good-by, Madaline," she said; and it was long before the young girl saw the fair face of the duchess again.
But though the coast views were fine, and the scenery picturesque, and the monster hotel itself stood on a commanding eminence, surrounded by darkly-beautiful pine woods, and was fitted up with every luxury of modern civilisation, including every specimen of Bath that human ingenuity had devised, the Company looked blankly at the returns on their balance-sheet, and one or two Directors murmured audible complaints at special Board meetings, against the fashionable physicians who had not acted up to their promises, or proved deserving of the substantial bonus which had been more than hinted at, as a reward for recommended patients.
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