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They were handsome children, those two. Hermia climbed the steps slowly amid the congratulations of the guests and smiled as Markham came forward to meet her. She was rosy as a cherub, her bright hair tumbled beneath her crimson hair-band. "Very good of you to come, Mr. Markham," she said breathlessly. "I had my eye in, and couldn't stop.
With a piece of his hair-band he fastened the chain to his feet, hung the second chain to the ring upon his waist, and now it only remained to place his hands in the manacles fastened to the iron bar.
So he went to the Bon Marché to look for a gift for Marie, not knowing where else to look, and he bought her any trifle that he could imagine Roselle's teaching was useful here, little chiffon collars, and a glittering hair-band ornament that he thought looked very French, and handkerchiefs, and a pair of silk stockings, and garters with great big fluffy pompoms on them.
She turned and showed him; and she showed him, too, the interest she took in herself, which had caused her to pull out those waves of fluffy hair over the tops of her ears, from under the hair-band, and the curls she had pulled from beneath to dance on her forehead. "Give me a kiss for it," he said, drawing her down. She kissed him lightly.
He cast a cursory glance towards the screened corner. "They're all right; they can't see or hear or anything else. Come here and let me put this hair-band thing on." She stood a dressing-table length away, fumbling with the hooks, her eyes fixed on him. "I have lots of things to say to you," she began suddenly. "Say them to-morrow," he replied in his old way.
Now, you're going to look at these souvenirs of Paris, aren't you?" He held her close to his side, while he showed her what he had chosen; the pale-pink collars "You were always gone on pink, weren't you?" he asked the silk stockings and the vanity garters. With clumsy fingers he tried to adjust the hair-band. "Let me do it," she protested, "if you really want me to wear it."
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