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What gave her the sense of social distinctions, of place and condition, at her age, with her limited, even if much-travelled experience of American cities? To read this mystery will be to understand Milly Ridge and something of America as well. The lease for the house had been signed, however, and for a five years' term.
The place cannot now be far-off; for at the hill's base they have struck a broad and much-travelled trail denoting the proximity of a settlement. Cypriano is undecided, but Gaspar, as before, goes strongly against proceeding directly onward. "You speak of delay, Senor Ludwig," he says; "but in this case, the old adage, `More haste less speed, might be true, as it often is.
She had never yet met any one who was quite like this learned, much-travelled, quiet-spoken young aristocrat. On her father's side she was descended from one of the oldest Knickerbocker families in the State of New York and her aristocracy responded instinctively to his, and formed a first bond between them.
Invitations from country houses came in sheaves, and the thought of green fields is seductive in a London month of July; but to remain in London was to be faithful to Penini and to the much-travelled Flush.
Before he spoke, she had given a quick order to the chauffeur to move on and leave the end of the mule path free. Now the heart of the motor began to beat, and the car rolled a few feet farther on. Vanno came out into the thick white dust of the much-travelled road, and he and Mary could both look up to the tablet he had mentioned.
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