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All his knowledge of the highways and byways of the feminine mind was only enough to make him recognize, as he glanced about the room, that he was about to encounter more! than a personality, that he was face to face with a force. The most illuminating thing that can be said about Folly's bedroom is that Leighton saw the bedroom the whole of it before he consciously saw Folly.
Finally Leighton exclaimed in exasperation: "What are you staring at?" Folly started as though she had just wakened, and turned her eyes on him. "You're too far away," she said. "If you really want to talk to me, come over here." She patted the bed at her side. Leighton crossed over, and sat on the edge of the bed. Something made him look up. His jaw dropped. There was a canopy to Folly's bed.
Thus among all the Folly's here abounding, None took like the new Ape-trick of Dumfounding.
It was only the last time they met that he had offered him one of Folly's puppies! and this was the end of it!" Mrs. Palmer, in her way, was equally angry. "She was determined to drop his acquaintance immediately, and she was very thankful that she had never been acquainted with him at all.
He was walking head down when a lonely carriage standing by the curb drew his eye. At first he thought desire had deceived his senses. The equipage looked very like Folly's smart little victoria, but it was empty, and the man on the box was a stranger. Lewis approached him doubtfully. "Is this Miss Delaires's carriage?" he asked. The man looked him over before he answered: "Yes, sir."
I tucked the edge of my skirt under the saddle-flap, slanted forward, and held the bridle with both hands close to his head. A long sandy reach of road lay before me. I enjoyed Folly's fierce trotting; but, as I expected, the good horse Black was on my track, while the rest of the party were far behind. He soon overtook me. Folly snorted when he heard Black's step.
Offered him one of Folly's puppies A very smart beau Introduced to Mrs. Jennings Mrs. Jennings assured him directly that she should not stand upon ceremony Mrs. Ferrars Drawing him a little aside In a whisper "You have heard, I suppose" Talking over the business "She put in the feather last night" Listening at the door Both gained considerable amusement "Of one thing I may assure you"
He never noticed the clenching and unclenching of her small hands or saw the whiteness of her tense averted face, and he began teasing her about her pony and her weight. "Nevil must buy you a brand new one, up to your weight," he suggested, "you've broken Folly's spirit evidently." He was standing on the steps, just one step below her, and he looked back laughing.
"Ah don't say that!" Mrs. Draper knowingly protested. "Just a little folly's often very graceful." Longmore rose to go she somehow annoyed him. "Don't talk of grace," he said, "till you've measured her reason!" For two years after his return to America he heard nothing of Madame de Mauves.
From that it was easy for him to guess her address, and one morning, without saying anything to Lewis of his plans, he presented himself at Folly's door. A trim maid opened to his ring. "Is Mlle. Delaires in, my dear?" asked Leighton. The maid stiffened, and peered intently at Leighton, who stood at ease in the half-dusk of the hall.
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