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- Page 11 and 12: He floated, gently moving his hands
- Page 13 and 14: "Thanks!" Stanley took a sip. "Hall
- Page 15 and 16: paused, her hand on the loaf of bre
- Page 17 and 18: "But I put it here." Stanley began
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- Page 61 and 62: A strange company assembled in the
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- Page 65 and 66: Lottie revived at that. But now she
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- Page 85 and 86: But when Beryl looked at the bush,
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"Oh," said the voice lightly, and a
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eneath. "No, really, I don't want t
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2. THE GARDEN PARTY. And after all
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Four men in their shirt-sleeves sto
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workman to talk to her of bangs sla
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for her part, she didn't feel them.
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"Mother says you're to wear that sw
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"It's some mistake," she said faint
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Hans--" Jose loved giving orders to
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"Now, Laura," said her mother quick
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knife, and smiled broadly. "Godber'
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"Tuk-tuk-tuk," clucked cook like an
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absurd. Of course we can't do anyth
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"Drunk! Who said he was drunk?" Lau
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"Mother, isn't it terribly heartles
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conductor in the middle on a leaf."
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"Never a more delightful garden-par
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greatest treat for the children. Do
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smell of crushed grass were somehow
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Laura said, "Are you Mrs. Scott?" B
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the bed. "Don't be afraid, my lass,
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Laura shook her head. She was. Laur
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She paused. "I thought then how ver
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slippers, creeping off to the bathr
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do? "I can't think how they manage
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"One never knows," said Josephine s
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And proud young Kate, the enchanted
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overdone the not leaving him at the
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oth, if you will let me. These are
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"A good one that will last," though
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And Constantia, pale as a lemon in
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"You--you go first," she gasped, pu
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trying to get free. That was too mu
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"No, don't, Jug," whispered Constan
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ack in the dining-room. They sat do
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Both paused to watch a black man in
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Josephine made no reply. She had fl
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poised over the chocolate-roll. "It
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Cyril put down his teacup. "Wait a
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"Come on," said Grandfather Pinner.
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"Do, dear," she smiled. "It will pl
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through the door in her usual fashi
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stranger. "Now the question is," sa
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"But I've always heard," said Const
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was as far off from a proof as ever
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"A week since father died, A week s
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until they had left school, and the
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her do it. The horrible dancing fig
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"Oh, Jug!" A pause. Then Constantia
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oth hands, pulled out the flaps of
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And just for the moment he was with
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"You are not going out, Reginald?"
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grasped the bell, given it a pull,
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"Good heavens, Anne," cried Reggie,
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eautiful she looked like that!--sim
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other followed, solemnly bowing and
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quickly. "How could there be? And I
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Dove." That did it. That seemed to
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"How can you talk of cutting off no
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5. THE YOUNG GIRL. In her blue dres
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"He's a ripping chap, isn't he? I w
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words." She looked her mother up an
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little brother, who was only twelve
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efore them and pushed across my cle
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"You utter little beast!" said she.
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Hennie said: "Ripping!" He meant to
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We tore through the black-and-gold
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6. LIFE OF MA PARKER. When the lite
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ubbed her knees... "Gran! Gran!" He
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"You simply dirty everything you've
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was never allowed out. She never we
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ack. "Now, if we were to cut him op
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And then the egg-cup of ink would c
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to make the bed, smoothing, tucking
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flat like a person in a dream. She
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Ma Parker stood, looking up and dow
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and chosen them something in five m
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lapping up a slice, for some reason
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examined... " William hung on to th
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frightfully keen on--on everything,
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wife, selfish man. She's like an ex
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"Oh!" said William. It was all he c
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her hand through his arm. "They'd b
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ends. William sat down in one of th
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"No," said Isabel, "nobody's going
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It was not until William was waitin
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"Do you think there will be Mondays
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dear!" What was she to do? Isabel f
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in her hand. She was laughing no lo
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the stairs.
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them. As well as her luggage strapp
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"That's right." He sounded stern, b
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shrilled. Silently the dark wharf b
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she thought the stars rocked too. A
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often you give yourself a cabin." "
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"I shall put on the woollen fascina
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kind of blue jelly. How hard it was
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dream before she woke up again to s
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silvery withered trees that are lik
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they were fallen, but their sweet s
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Fenella so merrily she almost thoug
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Little rogue! Yes, she really felt
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needed them; but that it was no goo
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hurried by. A beautiful woman came
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een drugged, that Miss Brill discov
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ose or fell, something so beautiful
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on the bed. She unclasped the neckl
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new and exciting... Meg's tuberoses
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dressing-table and mirror at the fa
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and one shoe on and begged her moth
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seemed to give him so much trouble
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He steered so beautifully. That was
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you at the Neaves' on Tuesday?" And
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"I think it's marvellous to be stil
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mustn't take me seriously, little l
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11. THE SINGING LESSON. With despai
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stool. When she saw Miss Meadows sh
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her greeting, but said in a voice o
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Ah, too Fast." With the gloom of th
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Again the two light taps; she lifte
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"Oh, if you please, Miss Meadows,"
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"Oh, just one minute, Miss Meadows,
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12. THE STRANGER It seemed to the l
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people--Those old chaps over by the
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kind, flushed, almost pitiful glanc
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into the air. The gulls rose; they
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she was. There was Janey. There was
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"Had a good voyage?" "Splendid!" "S
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"Haven't they sent me letters?" "Ye
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But--confound it!--the stewardess w
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mean that she had been ill on the v
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luggage. ***** Walking down the wha
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But they had reached the hotel. The
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"Oh, later on will do!" said Hammon
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"Yes, darling, I am glad," she said
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"Not asleep, are you?" said Hammond
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"I saw the change coming and I sent
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The fire had gone red. Now it fell
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13. BANK HOLIDAY. A stout man with
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'and!" The only ones who are quiet
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sun goes in a shadow flies over; wh
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glazed. When he takes off his hat t
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what?
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glance that went with the gesture,
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at him to make the whole thing over
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the stage." "That's all right, my b
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"The food altogether was too appall
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"There are hundred of cabs about at
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snatched the paper playfully from C
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lounge by the window, stretched out
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long had he been asleep? He listene
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15. THE LADY'S MAID. Eleven o'clock
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could tell the difference." ... Onl
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pride in my hair. He used to sit me
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madam, just enjoying themselves. An
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daffodils in the middle. I've hung-
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apron and my house-shoes, and there