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First she massaged Folly's full, round neck; then her swift, deep fingers, passed down one arm and felt out every muscle, every joint, to the tips of Folly's fingers. Back up the arm again, across the bosom, and down the other arm. Back to the neck once more, and then down and around the body to the very last joint of Folly's very last and very little toe.

She submitted now to the gown, and wrapped herself carefully in it. Propped high against the pillows, a braid of brown hair falling forward over each shoulder, and her bare arms lying still at her sides, she looked very demure indeed and very sweet. "Bring tea, Marie," she said softly, "and show in Daddy Leighton." LEIGHTON'S first feeling on entering Folly's bedroom was one of despair.

They carried no hangings, but were fitted with three shades, differing in weight and color, and with adjustable porcelain Venetian blinds which could be made to exclude light without excluding air. Folly's bed was a mighty structure. Like the rest of the furniture, it was of mahogany.

The news that Lewis no longer followed in Folly's train permeated his world with a rapidity that has no parallel outside of London except in the mental telegraphy of aboriginal Africa. Men soon began to talk to him, to tell him things.

I flush and grow hot each time I think this was done for me. I never asked ye to be of my quarrel nay, I take shame that I have not ere this sent to Privy Seal to say that ye have lied, and Cleves is false to him. She pointed an accusing finger at him: 'I take shame; ye have shamed me. He laughed a little, but he bent a leg to her. 'Some man must save thee from thy folly's fruits, he said.

To do her justice, Folly was young, and also she had asked her question in good faith. As to innocence well, what has never consciously existed, causes no lack. Folly's little world was exceedingly broad in one way and as narrow in another, but, like few human worlds, it contained a miracle. The miracle was that it absolutely satisfied her.

In that category before anything else comes old age, to which all wish to attain, and at which all grumble when attained. Such is Folly's inconsistency and unreasonableness! They say that it is stealing upon them faster than they expected. In the first place, who compelled them to hug an illusion? For in what respect did old age steal upon manhood faster than manhood upon childhood?

See! if I were as mischievous as you insinuate My loss may pay my folly's tax; I've broke my trusty battle-axe." Keene took the fragment from her, and looked at it for an instant. "Poor thing!" he said compassionately; "so it was fated to be short-lived? It was hardly worth while saving it from the wrath of the sinner, if it was to be sacrificed so soon to the awkwardness of the saint."

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.

But Lewis had not yet reached that wisdom which tells us that man learns to know himself last of all. He did not realize that your true-born libertine never knows it. Whatever Folly's life may have been, and he thought he had no illusions on that score, he seized upon her question as proving that she still held the potential bloom of youth and a measure of innocence.

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