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"Most women do," said the captain, with one of those flashes of bitterness that sent all the good humor scurrying out of his face. "Of course, she's just playing with Andy," Mrs. Weston hurried on, fearful of the memories she had stirred; "but Mr. Hascombe is different. He is so good-looking and so polished, almost any girl would have her head turned a bit by his attentions."
"But don't you like the poem?" "I like the way your mouth looks when you read it. Your chin's nice, too, isn't it?" "Oh, I don't know," said Percival, with an unsuccessful effort at indifference; "it's the Hascombe chin. Been in the family for generations." "Think of having a chin as old as that! Perhaps that's what makes you so solemn." "Am I solemn?" "Awfully.
The utterly preposterous fact that a Hascombe of Hascombe Hall had been jilted was too amazing a circumstance to be concealed, and the county buzzed with rumors. The Honorable Percival, whose pride had sustained a compound fracture, set sail immediately for America.
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