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Joan had a good field now for her wit, and she set the company in a merry mood. When she touched upon Martin's nephew, which, of course, she wickedly did, she made an impression. "See here," Martin broke in, "this isn't palm-reading, you little fraud you're trying to be funny trading on what you've heard but couldn't know for yourself." "That's part of the trick, Uncle David.
"I said palm-reading, Arch, not hand-holding. Leave that part to Ed and Gert over there. Now quit squeezing " Mr. Sensenbrenner bent low, almost nose to her palm. "I see," he began, his voice widening to a drawl "I se-e a fellow about my size and complexion entering your life "
I think it is too late. I'll turn back with you. 'Do, she said, and looked at his capable, sensitive hand as he laid it on the side of her little carriage. Miss Anderson had not the accomplishment of palm-reading, but she took general manual impressions. She had observed Colonel Innes's hand before, but it had never offered itself so intimately to her inspection.
Joan saw the firm lips draw together, and she paused in her gaiety, sensing something she did not quite understand. In the living room by the fire Joan again grew witchy. She insisted upon proving her cleverness at palm-reading. Raymond dared not refuse, but he showed plain disapproval. "It's rot!" Martin broke in, "but here goes, Joan!" And spread his honest hand upon the altar.
When Hayden finally drew his attention from the walls and ceiling sufficiently to realize that he was not in the autumn woods, he noticed that this apartment was scantily furnished. Two or three chairs, a small table or so. On one of these tables was a bronze tripod upholding a crystal ball and a silk cushion upon which to rest one's hand during a palm-reading.
"Do you prefer a palm-reading, the crystal-gazing or both?" she asked, and although the words were the usual commonplace phrases that she probably repeated a dozen times a day, uttered monotonously enough, yet through some vibrant, ringing quality her most ordinary utterances were endued with life. "I hardly know," he said in answer to her question, and falling in with her mood.
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