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Lady Delacour sat down again, ashamed of her own embarrassment. Whether this be art, innocence, or assurance, thought she, I cannot tell; but we shall see. Lord Delacour now came in, with a half-unfolded newspaper, and a packet of letters in his hand. He came to apologize to Miss Portman for having, by mistake, broken the seal of a letter to her, which had been sent under cover to him.
The trees were misty with half-unfolded leafage birds twittered cheerily among the branches; but Piers heeded not these things. He stood before the high narrow-fronted house, which once he had entered as a guest, where never again would he be suffered to pass the door.
"So long as you remember the caution I gave you " "You may be quite sure I remember." As she would have passed on he stopped her. "One minute," he said. "The rose I told you of is out, to-day." The tiny garden was fashioned into a square of grass-plot, a bed full of rose-trees in its midst. The Frau Karl Druschki, recently acquired, had only one half-unfolded bloom.
Here was a piece of ground which nobody cultivated; it manifestly wanted owners; they took it, weeded it, and flung out all the weeds into Mrs. Walker's garden. The morning was warm; a south wind was fluttering the half-unfolded leaf-buds, and spreading abroad the soft odour of violets and primroses which covered the sunny slopes. John's children, when they came in at Mrs.
Brown sat down with the baby cradled on his left arm, tucked the half-unfolded towel beneath its chin, and with the cup conveniently at hand upon the table began to convey the milk, drop by drop, to the little mouth. "I don't see how you dare do it. You might choke the child to death." "Not a bit. He'll swallow a lot of atmosphere and it may give him a pain, but that's better than starving.
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