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She then told her story simply and truthfully, repeating, as he bade her, every word that had passed between Enna and herself, and between her and her grandparents.
Clifford gazed at him in meek reproof and then made a flank movement upon the champagne, but was again neatly foiled by Rowden. Yvonne looked serious, but presently leaned over and filled one of the long-stemmed goblets. "Only one, Mr Clifford; one for you to drink my health, but you must promise me truthfully not to take any more wine this evening!"
It will be unfortunate if they find you absent, and might lead to inquiries which would give them a clue to his whereabouts. As it is, you can truthfully say that he has not shown himself in your house." The old people acted upon the suggestion and reached their house not a moment too soon.
The exterior of the building reflects more truthfully than the interior the different art waves which spread over Spain during the centuries of the temple's erection.
"I believe you, my dear," he answered; then added gently: "There's a happier man somewhere, I think." Amaryllis opened her eyes wide, almost, it seemed, in fear. "Oh, no, no!" she cried. "Truthfully, I don't know any more than I've told you." When he was gone, she sat for a long time, wishing she could feel alone.
The writer, in his younger days, was quite an expert in trapping, and he can truthfully say that he found more enjoyment and had better success with these than with any other kinds of traps he employed. They are generally set in thickets or woods where either rabbits or partridges are known to abound.
And when she dared to consider truthfully her estimate of Archie Braelands, she judged his love, passionate as it was, did not ring true through all its depths. There were times when her little gaucheries fretted him; when her dress did not suit him; when he put aside an engagement with her for a sail with a lord, or a dinner party with friends, or a social function at his own home.
That explanation is here truthfully laid before them, enabling them to judge for themselves.
When he had awakened, it had been with the euphoria all gone and with his present hangover. "At least," he told himself, "I can truthfully say that this one wasn't my fault. That blasted spray " He looked resentfully at the sleeping woman in the chair. Then he reached and roughly shook her shoulder. She opened her eyes and looked at him, first sleepily and then with resentment.
But the near prospect of seeing her presently gave him back his caution, and he answered truthfully that he had left her in Excelsior, and that in his two hours' sojourn in Indian Spring he had not met her once. "But," he added, with a Californian's reverence for the sanctity of a bet, "I reckon you'd better make it a stand-off for twenty-four hours, and I'll find out and let you know."
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