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Will you look at it, please?" and as sharply declined Dickensey's proffered aid. Maurice came to her side at once, and in this way she detained him. But Dickensey hovered not far off, and Miss Martin was still in sight. Madeleine caught her skate in a crack, fell on her knee, and said she had now loosened the strap altogether.
She sat down on a heap of snow, and Dickensey's shade vanished good-naturedly round a corner. "Well, YOU seem to be enjoying yourself," she said as Maurice drew off his gloves and knelt down. "Why, yes, aren't you?" he replied so frankly that she did not continue the subject. "I've been trying all the evening to get a word with you.
But now that he had certainty, his chief idea was to prevent the others from knowing, too; he grew sick at the thought of Madeleine's sharp comments, and Dickensey's cynicism. Rejoining them, he insisted so imperiously that Madeleine showed surprise on their skating with him on the further pond; and he kept them going round and round without a pause.
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