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Lady Bannerdale smiled. "Ida Heron is one of those girls who are quite capable of taking care of themselves," she said. "How wonderfully calm and self-possessed she was. Most girls would have been rather upset, or, at any rate, a little flurried, meeting us all so unexpectedly; but she came into the room with the perfect unself-consciousness which marks "
I could bear it if if I did not see you; but if I saw you Oh!" something like a moan escaped her quivering lips, and she flung herself upon his breast with the abandon, the unself-consciousness of a child. Stafford was moved to his inmost heart, and for a moment, as he held her within the embrace of his strong arms, he could not command his voice sufficiently for speech.
"Ah! it is all very difficult, difficult to the point of alarm!" she exclaimed suddenly, turning to Lord Shotover and looking him straight in the face, with an unself-consciousness and desire of support so transparent, that that gentleman found himself at once delighted and slightly abashed. "Bless my soul, but Ludovic is a lucky devil!" he said to himself.
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