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The next instant, however, she was cold again with dismay and newborn terror. He unclasped her arms, he drew back, shaking off the hands she had rested upon his shoulders. His white face the flush had faded from it again smiled a thought disdainfully. "You bargain with me," he said. "But I have some knowledge of your ways of trading. They are overshrewd for an honest gentleman."
Caryll saw, and registered, for future use, the reflection that eyes that are overshrewd are seldom wont to look out of honest heads. "You are desired," his lordship informed him, "to be witness to a marriage." "So much the landlady had made known to me." "It is not, I trust, a task that will occasion you any scruples." "None. On the contrary, it is the absence of the marriage might do that."
His own agitation was so great that he scarcely knew, and it mattered but little after all, for the good lady did not even pretend to listen to his apologies. Although by no means overshrewd, she suspected some great mystery, some bit of scandal, perhaps, and her eyes never once wandered from the door leading to the boudoir. At last this door opened and Mademoiselle Marguerite reappeared.
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