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Updated: May 29, 2025
He made himself charming, and since he did not explain that he had purposely dismissed his sister for the day in order to find an excuse for his visit to the hotel, Annette had no present suspicion of him. They had a little playful badinage together, and Laurent, turning mock-sentimental, lamented his celibacy so quaintly that she broke into peals of silvery laughter over him.
Besides," with a mock-sentimental air, "you have not been here long enough to know the melancholy history, to count the wrecks that are strewn along the coast, where the Siren resorts. Let me take up the list. I heard of him in State Street a month ago, with a blue shirt and leather belt, and chewing a piece of tobacco as large as his thumb. He seemed happy as a king."
If we could not win her, no one else should; and we formed ourselves round her in a ring of fire. Oh, the maddening, mock-sentimental, mock-sympathetic face she would pull, when one of us ventured to sigh to her of his passion! The way she would lift her eyebrows, and gaze at you with a travesty of pity, shaking her head pensively, and murmuring, 'Mon pauvre ami!
This house where I am is the only safe place for you to sleep in between here and Clifton. I'll wake you, myself, in good time." My heart pounded and rose in my throat, yet I managed to say, "My orders are plain." I flinched visibly, for again I had told too much. I pretended to listen toward the depths of the wood. She struck a mock-sentimental attitude and murmured musically
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