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What more followed Agias did not know; his little affair with Artemisia had taught him that his Hellenic inquisitiveness sometimes would do more harm than good. Very different from the good-humoured, careless, half-boyish student youth who had driven down the Præneste road two years before, was the soldierly figure that Cornelia pressed to her heart.
She roused herself from this momentary reverie, and glancing down at the recumbent gentleman at her feet, touched his shoulder lightly with the edge of her fan. "Why do you not dance, you very lazy Mr. Lorimer?" she asked, with a smile. He turned up his fair, half-boyish face to hers and laughed. "Dance! I! Good gracious! Such an exertion would kill me, Lady Errington don't you know that?
It was enough, however, to put a new light in his eye and a faint color in his cheek. "Could it have been Miss Nellie?" he asked, with half-boyish hesitation. Mr. Wynn was too much of a Christian not to bow before what appeared to him the purely providential interposition of this suggestion. Seizing it and Low at the same moment, he playfully forced him down again in his chair.
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