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"Did you notice anything particularly impertinent in Miss Suydam's question?" she asked quietly. "What question?" "When she asked me whether I was Miss Cardross." The slow colour again burned his bronzed skin. He made no reply, nor did she await any after a silent consideration of his troubled face. "Where did you hear about me?" she asked.
"I shall miss your visits," Austin could not disguise his genuine regret, "but when you return I shall be thoroughly recovered. Perhaps we can ride again." "Never!" declared Miss Moore. "I shall never ride again. Think of the suffering I've caused you. I I am dreadfully sorry." To Suydam's amazement, he saw the speaker's eyes fill with tears.
Austin continued to nod and smile in her direction, even after the carriage was lost to view; then he felt his way back to the arm-chair and sank limply into it. "Gone! I I'll never be able to see her again." Suydam's throat tightened miserably. "Could you see her at all?" "Only her outlines; but when she comes back in the fall I'll be as blind as a bat."
Others, in a wave of sex-radicalism, were running off together all about the country ... But it was Mrs. Suydam's case that interested me and Hildreth most ... she was a dainty, pretty little slight thing, as Hildreth was I could judge by her pictures.... "Hildreth," I urged, "let's drop Mrs.
There are times there are moments when I cannot endure it the thought of losing the disgrace of your lips your arms the sound of your voice. Don't go and leave me like this don't go " Miss Suydam's head fell. She was crying. The eagle on the wet beach, one yellow talon firmly planted on its offal, tore strip after strip from the quivering mass. The sun etched his tinted shadow on the sand.
When the last shining drop had fallen she looked questioningly at Miss Suydam. "I'm a little tired, that is all," said Virginia. She rose rather unsteadily and took advantage of Shiela's firm young arm, which, as they progressed, finally slipped around Miss Suydam's waist. Very slowly they crossed the burning sands together, scarcely exchanging a word until they reached the Cardross pavilion.
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