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"Ah, monsieur," she said, "my father entrusted to your keeping a clean-minded girl! What have you made of her, Gaston?" A strange and profoundly unreasonable happiness swept through the Duke's soul as she spoke his given name for the first time within his memory. Surely, the deep contralto voice had lingered over it? half-tenderly, half-caressingly, one might think.
They stood there, the two, just as two girls so often stand to-day, the hand of one laid half-caressingly upon the hip of the other. The beaming, broad one was chattering volubly and the slender one listening carelessly. The talking of the heavier girl was interrupted evenly by her mumbling at a juicy strip of meat.
'Oh no, he has taken pity on Annie and Caroline Cheviot's famine of croquet, and gone with them to the gardens. 'A spice of flirtation never comes amiss to him. 'There, that's the way! said Ethel, half-saucily, half-caressingly; 'that poor fellow never can do right!
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